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DIVIDED SISTERHOOD
RACE, CLASS AND GENDER IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN NURSING PROFESSION |
| By: |
Shula Marks |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£122.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0333546199 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780333546192 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
27 September, 1994 |
| Pages: |
306 |
| Description: |
Explores the establishment of nursing in South Africa as a profession for white, English-speaking "ladies", the class and racial tensions that developed as first Afrikaner and then black women joined its ranks, and the way processes of professionalization further divided nurses. |
| Synopsis: |
'... a complex history told with consummate clarity, compassion and poignancy'- A.M.Rafferty, Department of Nursing and Midwifery Studies, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham This book explores the establishment of nursing as a profession for white, English-speaking 'ladies' in the last third of the nineteenth century, the class and racial tensions that developed as first Afrikaner and then African, Indian and Coloured women were drawn into its ranks, and the way in which processes of professionalisation further divided nurses. The book provides a powerful metaphor for South African society. |
| Illustrations: |
XIII, 306 p. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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