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Divided sisterhood : race, class and gender in the South African nursing profession / Shula Marks.

Title
  1. Divided sisterhood : race, class and gender in the South African nursing profession / Shula Marks.
Published by
  1. New York : St. Martin's Press, [1994], ©1994.
Author
  1. Marks, Shula.

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Description
  1. xiii, 306 pages; 23 cm
Summary
  1. The book provides a powerful metaphor for South African society. At its heart lies the tension between the universalist ethos of the healing professions and racial fears around images of white (female) hands on black (male) bodies - and black (female) hands on white (male) bodies.
  2. There are about 150,000 nurses in South Africa today, two-thirds of them black, and it is widely recognised that they will be crucial to any future health service. Yet the profession suffers from 'a major crisis of identity', divided between black and white, junior and senior, hospital- and university-trained.
  3. 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.
Subject
  1. Apartheid > South Africa
  2. Nurses > South Africa > Public opinion
  3. Nurses
  4. Nursing > Social aspects > South Africa
  5. Nursing
  6. Public Opinion
  7. Race Relations
  8. South Africa > Race relations
  9. South Africa
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.