The aim of this book is to show how feminist perspectives can extend and advance the field of nursing ethics. It engages in the broader nursing ethics project of critiquing existing ethical frameworks as well as constructing and developing alternative understandings, concepts, and methodologies. All of the contributors draw attention to the operations of power inherent in moral relationships at individual, institutional, cultural, and socio-political levels. The early essays chart the development of feminist perspectives in the field of nursing ethics from the late 19th century to the present day and consider the impact of gender roles and gendered understandings on the moral lives of nurses, patients and families. They also consider the transformative potential of feminist perspectives to widen the scope of nursing and midwifery practices to include the social, economic, cultural and political dimensions of moral decision-making in health care settings.  The second half of thebook draws on feminist insights to critically discuss the role of nurses and midwives in leadership, healthcare organisations, and research as well as the provision of particular forms of care e.g. care in the home and abortion care. 

Foreword

Introduction
I. Nursing Ethics and feminist theoretical challenges
Chapter 1. The influence of the social location of nurses-as-women on the early development of nursing ethics
Chapter 2. An evolution of feminist thought in nursing ethics
Chapter 3. Piecing together a puzzle: Feminist materialist philosophy and nursing ethics
Chapter 4. Bearing witness and testimony in nursing: An ethical-political practice
Chapter 5. Intercultural perspectives
Interlude: Joan Tronto on care ethics and nursing ethics: an interview
II. Nursing ethics in organisation, clinical practice, and research through a feminist lens
Chapter 6. Organisation ethics, relational leadership and nursing
Chapter 7. Hospital Ethics Committees and the dismissal of nursing ethical concerns: A feminist perspective
Chapter 8. Feminist reflections on home, digital health technologies and ethics
Chapter 9. Conscience, conscientious objection and commitment: midwives, nurses and abortion care
Chapter 10. Feminist ethics in nursing research.