El cuidado de sí mismo en enfermería. Una visión con perspectiva de género

Abstract

The emancipatory pattern has allowed the foundation and development of the nursing discipline, towards a way of thinking from critical theory. The purpose of the study is to reflect on the possibility that the nursing professional has to develop through the personal pattern a strategy for the emancipation of consciousness in heteronormative-patriarchal structures within the control state apparatuses (health institutions) where technification, medicalization and pathologization of life is above self-care and health care as a human experience. To address the issue, the analytical category of Gender was used in a transversal way, which allows to make visible the power relations that generate inequalities based on sexual difference. Then, it is understood that all things, people or professions perceived as feminine (as in the case of the nursing profession) are subordinated and oppressed compared to those perceived as masculine. Caring and knowledge patterns for self-care are proposed as resistance to inequalities generated by the integration of the biomedical-heteropatriarchal model in nursing thought and practice.