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Academic Freedom: Protecting "Liberal Science" In Nursing In The 21st Century, S. Kneipp, M. Canales, N. Fahrenwald, Janette Taylor
Academic Freedom: Protecting "Liberal Science" In Nursing In The 21st Century, S. Kneipp, M. Canales, N. Fahrenwald, Janette Taylor
Janette Y. Taylor
Generating new knowledge through science is one of the most valued contributions of American universities, and is wholly dependent on the tenets of academic freedom. This article provides an overview of academic freedom in the United States, lack of attentiveness to academic freedom in the discipline of nursing, and its relevance for advancing nursing science. Three issues are critically evaluated as they relate to "the free search for truth" that is imperative for scientific progress to occur, including (a) its importance in a liberal science system, (b) recent trends to politically manipulate science, and (c) movements to restrict speech on …
Colonizing Images And Diagnostic Labels: Oppressive Mechanisms For African American Women's Health, Janette Taylor
Colonizing Images And Diagnostic Labels: Oppressive Mechanisms For African American Women's Health, Janette Taylor
Janette Y. Taylor
The purpose of this article is to present colonizing images of African American women and describe how colonizing images and diagnostic labels function together to serve as oppressive mechanisms for African American women's health. The mammy, the matriarch, the welfare mother, the Jezebel, and the Black lady overachiever are representational images of African American women that contribute to how they are viewed and treated within the health care arena.
Academic Freedom And Academic Duty To Teach Social Justice: A Perspective And Pedagogy For Public Health Nursing Faculty, N. Fahrenwald, Janette Taylor, S. Kneipp, M. Canales
Academic Freedom And Academic Duty To Teach Social Justice: A Perspective And Pedagogy For Public Health Nursing Faculty, N. Fahrenwald, Janette Taylor, S. Kneipp, M. Canales
Janette Y. Taylor
Public health nursing practice is rooted in the core value of social justice. Nursing faculty whose expertise is in public health are often the content experts responsible for teaching this essential, yet potentially controversial, value. Contemporary threats to academic freedom remind us that the disciplinary autonomy and academic duty to teach social justice may be construed as politically ideological. These threats are of particular concern when faculty members guide students through a scientific exploration of sociopolitical factors that lead to health-related social injustices and encourage students to improve and transform injustices in their professional careers. This article (a) reviews recent …
Assessing Intimate Partner Violence In Incarcerated Women, M. Eliason, Janette Taylor, S. Arndt
Assessing Intimate Partner Violence In Incarcerated Women, M. Eliason, Janette Taylor, S. Arndt
Janette Y. Taylor
The purpose of this study to assess the psychometric qualities of a screening instrument for intimate partner violence, the Index of Spouse Abuse (ISA), for use with incarcerated women. Principal components factor analysis was conducted on data collected from 149 incarcerated women. The ISA demonstrated excellent internal consistency with this population and appears to be a psychometrically sound instrument that can be given in a short period of time.
Sisters Of The Yam: African American Women's Healing And Self-Recovery From Intimate Male Partner Violence, Janette Taylor
Sisters Of The Yam: African American Women's Healing And Self-Recovery From Intimate Male Partner Violence, Janette Taylor
Janette Y. Taylor
In this womanist ethnographic investigation African American women (N = 21) survivors of intimate male partner violence were interviewed about their resilience-recovering experiences. This article foregrounds the role of therapeutic support groups in African American women's healing experience and addresses how race and ethnicity shape the lives and the recovering process for many African American women. The findings are important to practitioners who strive to provide assistance and interventions for African American women as well as other women of color.
No Resting Place: African American Women At The Crossroads Of Violence, Janette Taylor
No Resting Place: African American Women At The Crossroads Of Violence, Janette Taylor
Janette Y. Taylor
Seeking safe places after leaving abusive relationships is often an intricate process for African American women. Survivor-victims of gender violence frequently experience ongoing trauma because of race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and other stigmatizing social identities. All too often, women of color must handle leaving the gender violence simultaneously with the ongoing threat of cultural violence. The intersection of gender and cultural violence (e.g., racism, discrimination) complicate African American women's ability to obtain and sustain safe environments. These intersections are critical crossroads in African American women's lives. The results of this womanist and Black feminist study are presented in an …
Engaging Racial Autoethnography As A Teaching Tool For Womanist Inquiry, Janette Taylor, Melissa Lehan Mackin, A. Oldenburg
Engaging Racial Autoethnography As A Teaching Tool For Womanist Inquiry, Janette Taylor, Melissa Lehan Mackin, A. Oldenburg
Janette Y. Taylor
Racial autobiography, self-narratives on how one learned about the idea of race, has been underutilized as a tool to familiarize and orient students in the process of critical inquiry for nursing research. The aims of this article are to explore how racial autoethnography: (1) repositions students to effect an epistemological change, (2) challenges dominant ideology, and (3) functions as a link between the student and critical theories for use in nursing research. Students engage in and share reflective narrative about a variety of instructional materials used in the course. Reflective narratives are presented in a framework that addresses white racial …
Race And Ethnicity As Variables In Nursing Research, 1952-2000, D. Drevdahl, Janette Taylor, D. Phillips
Race And Ethnicity As Variables In Nursing Research, 1952-2000, D. Drevdahl, Janette Taylor, D. Phillips
Janette Y. Taylor
BACKGROUND: Although the use of race and ethnicity as variables in research has increased over the past five decades, there is confusion regarding the meaning of the terms, as well as how the words are defined and determined in scientific inquiry. OBJECTIVE: To review the use of race and ethnicity as variables in nursing research literature. METHODS: Original research articles published in Nursing Research in the years, 1952, 1955, and every 5 years thereafter through 2000 were reviewed. Those articles describing human characteristics (N = 337) were analyzed for content concerning: (a) frequency of racial and ethnic terms, (b) words …
Uncontested Categories: The Use Of Race And Ethnicity Variables In Nursing Research, D. Drevdahl, D. Philips, Janette Taylor
Uncontested Categories: The Use Of Race And Ethnicity Variables In Nursing Research, D. Drevdahl, D. Philips, Janette Taylor
Janette Y. Taylor
Classifying human beings according to race and ethnicity may seem straightforward to some but it, in fact, belies a difficult process. No standard procedure exists for categorizing according to race and ethnicity, calling into question the variables' use in research. This article explores the use of race and ethnicity variables in the nursing research literature. Content analysis was conducted of a sample of 337 original research studies published in Nursing Research from the years 1952, 1955, and then every 5 years through to 2000. Of the 337 research articles reviewed, 167 mentioned race, ethnicity, or their 81 code words or …
Moving From Surviving To Thriving: African American Women Recovering From Intimate Male Partner Abuse, Janette Taylor
Moving From Surviving To Thriving: African American Women Recovering From Intimate Male Partner Abuse, Janette Taylor
Janette Y. Taylor
In this ethnographic study, a womanist framework was used to investigate the process of recovery from domestic violence. A purposive sample of African American women (N = 21) was interviewed to gain understanding of their recovery process. Survivorship-thriving was the overarching process. Six themes related to survivorship-thriving were identified: (a) Sharing secrets/Shattering silences--sharing information about the abuse with others; (b) Reclaiming the Self-defining oneself separate from abuser and society; (c) Renewing the Spirit-nurturing and restoring the spiritual and emotional self; (d) Self-healing through Forgiveness--forgiving their partners for the abuse and violence; (e) Finding inspiration in the Future-looking to the future …
Womanism: A Methodologic Framework For African American Women, Janette Taylor
Womanism: A Methodologic Framework For African American Women, Janette Taylor
Janette Y. Taylor
Although nurse scholars have become increasingly engaged in feminist research and theory development, only a few have included important feminist thoughts expressed by African American womanist theorists. This article presents an abbreviated review and synthesis of Afrocentric ways of knowing, which includes Black feminist, womanist, and Afrocentric perspectives. A developing methodology for use with African American women is also described.