ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates how French theoretical currents of postmodern and post-structural theory were received into the discourse of unique American nursing science: postmodernism was reworked to fit and support extant nursing theories and perspectives. The chapter examines the writings of Susan Gortner, Laura Dzurec, Pamela Reed, Jean Watson, and the journal Nursing Science Quarterly. Nurse authors emphasized the complementary nature of cherry-picked postmodern and post-structural ideas to nursing science but filtered out other ideas that challenge nursing’s disciplinary matrix.
