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Divided Sisterhood

Race, Class and Gender in the South African Nursing Profession

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  • © 1994

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Authors:
  1. Shula Marks

    1. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. ‘But Why Nursing?’

    • Shula Marks
    Pages 1-14

  3. ‘Ladies and God-fearing Women’

    • Shula Marks
    Pages 15-44

  4. ‘Are They Angels?’

    • Shula Marks
    Pages 45-77

  5. ‘Bantu Nightingales’

    • Shula Marks
    Pages 78-112

  6. ‘In Control of Her Destiny’

    • Shula Marks
    Pages 113-137

  7. ‘A Taint on the Flower of Womanhood in South Africa’

    • Shula Marks
    Pages 138-163

  8. ‘Dead Patients, or Black Nurses?’

    • Shula Marks
    Pages 164-193

  9. ‘Divided Sisterhood’

    • Shula Marks
    Pages 194-213

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 214-306
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About this book

'... 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. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

    Shula Marks

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Divided Sisterhood

  • Book Subtitle: Race, Class and Gender in the South African Nursing Profession

  • Authors: Shula Marks

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23603-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Shula Marks 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-54619-2Published: 27 September 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-23605-3Published: 13 December 1994

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-23603-9Published: 06 July 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 306

  • Topics: Asian History, Social History, History of Medicine, Nursing

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