Queer Phenomenology, Sexual Orientation, and Health Care Spaces: Learning From the Narratives of Queer Women and Nurses in Primary Health Care

Heyes, Cressida J.; Dean, Megan A.; Goldberg, Lisa

doi:10.1080/00918369.2015.1083775

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“…Fish, 2010; Irwin, 2007) and has been at the forefront of debates regarding culturally competent practice (e.g. Hayes et al., 2016). Baker and Beagan (2014) call for collaborative nursing policy and practice which promotes ‘learning with’ LGBT patients.…”

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Mastering wellness: LGBT people’s understanding of wellbeing through interest sharing

Ceatha

2016

Journal of Research in Nursing

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The wellbeing of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people has generated considerable research interest over 30 years. An alternative perspective to the consensus of increased LGBT mental health risk is put forward in light of research with general populations on social wellbeing through community involvement. This qualitative research is aligned with emergent research trends problematising the dominant 'at risk' representation. Through 10 in-depth interviews with 11 LGBT people living in Ireland involved in physical, creative and social activities, within and outside LGBT communities, this study explored the relationship between LGBTwellbeing and interest sharing. The theme of 'mastering wellness' emerged from the personal narratives, emphasising participants' agency regarding their wellbeing. Participants' openness in discussing mental health contrasts with the Irish population. Respondents generally understood that anyone may experience periods of mental illhealth and equally experience times of wellbeing. This suggests potentially stigmatised communities simultaneously challenge the stigmatising representation of LGBT identities and mental health and binary constructs of normal/abnormal. The implications of this study underscore the need for nursing policy and practice initiatives promoting wellbeing within and beyond LGBT communities.

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Mastering wellness: LGBT people’s understanding of wellbeing through interest sharing

Ceatha

2016

Journal of Research in Nursing

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“…The semistructured nature of the interviews involved questions around the experiences of participants with their perinatal care providers in the context of rural Nova Scotia, how or whether they interpreted their queer identity to have influenced their birthing care, the atmosphere of the birthing spaces they occupied and whether other intersections influenced the provision of care and to share their interactions with perinatal care providers (Heyes et al . ). Health Research Ethics Board approvals from relevant institutions from across the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, permitted participant recruitment through advertisements that were shared in a variety of settings, including clinics, hospitals, community bulletin boards, social media and various queer events.…”

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Accessing new understandings of trauma‐informed care with queer birthing women in a rural context

Lane

Goldberg

Aston

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Journal of Clinical Nursing

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Aims and objectives Participant narratives from a feminist and queer phenomenological study aim to broaden current understandings of trauma. Examining structural marginalisation within perinatal care relationships provides insights into the impact of dominant models of care on queer birthing women. More specifically, validation of queer experience as a key finding from the study offers trauma‐informed strategies that reconstruct formerly disempowering perinatal relationships. Background Heteronormativity governs birthing spaces and presents considerable challenges for queer birthing women who may also have an increased risk of trauma due to structurally marginalising processes that create and maintain socially constructed differences. Design Analysis of the qualitative data was guided by feminist and queer phenomenology. This was well suited to understanding queer women's storied narratives of trauma, including disempowering processes of structural marginalisation. Methods Semistructured and conversational interviews were conducted with a purposeful sample of thirteen queer‐identified women who had experiences of birthing in rural Nova Scotia, Canada. Results Validation was identified as meaningful for queer women in the context of perinatal care in rural Nova Scotia. Offering new perspectives on traditional models of assessment provide strategies to create a context of care that reconstructs the birthing space insofar as women at risk do not have to come out as queer in opposition to the expectation of heterosexuality. Conclusions Normative practices were found to further the effects of structural marginalisation suggesting that perinatal care providers, including nurses, can challenge dominant models of care and reconstruct the relationality between queer women and formerly disempowering expectations of heteronormativity that govern birthing spaces. Relevance to clinical practice New trauma‐informed assessment strategies reconstruct the relationality within historically disempowering perinatal relationships through potentiating difference which avoids retraumatising women with re‐experiencing the process of coming out as queer in opposition to the expectation of heterosexuality.

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“…The current health care landscape, despite broader sociocultural–political changes, including more access to LGBTQ+ issues in the media, music industry, and pop culture, remains plagued by institutionalized systems that perpetuate gender binaries, heteronormativity, and discriminatory practices that reinforce the invisibility of those who are members of LGBTQ+ communities (Harbin et al, 2012; Heyes, Dean, & Goldberg, 2015). Evidence indicates that such invisibility is reinforced through health care practices that maintain heterosexuality as the assumed norm; gender norming is further achieved through a reductive binary of limiting gender identities to man or woman (Harbin et al, 2012).…”

Section: The Invisibility Of Lgbtq+: Understanding the Current Healthmentioning

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Rendering LGBTQ+ Visible in Nursing: Embodying the Philosophy of Caring Science

2017

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Although health care institutions continue to address the importance of diversity initiatives, the standard(s) for treatment remain historically and institutionally grounded in a sociocultural privileging of heterosexuality. As a result, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) communities in health care remain largely invisible. This marked invisibility serves as a call to action, a renaissance of thinking within redefined boundaries and limitations. We must therefore refocus our habits of attention on the wholeness of persons and the diversity of their storied experiences as embodied through contemporary society. By rethinking current understandings of LGBTQ+ identities through innovative representation(s) of the media, music industry, and pop culture within a caring science philosophy, nurses have a transformative opportunity to render LGBTQ+ visible and in turn render a transformative opportunity for themselves.

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Queer Phenomenology, Sexual Orientation, and Health Care Spaces: Learning From the Narratives of Queer Women and Nurses in Primary Health Care

Cited by 24 publications

References 16 publications

Mastering wellness: LGBT people’s understanding of wellbeing through interest sharing

Mastering wellness: LGBT people’s understanding of wellbeing through interest sharing

Accessing new understandings of trauma‐informed care with queer birthing women in a rural context

Rendering LGBTQ+ Visible in Nursing: Embodying the Philosophy of Caring Science

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