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Title: | A marginal elite? African registered nurses in Durban, South Africa |
Author: | Cheater, Angela P. |
Year: | 1974 |
Periodical: | African Studies |
Volume: | 33 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 143-158 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | nurses elite |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00020187408707432 |
Abstract: | Although literature on elites in modern Africa is increasing, few writers have given specific attention to the subject of Africam women elites. However, in South Africa, the importance of elite women, particulary of nurses and teachers, has been noted by Wilson and Mafeje, Vilakazi, Pauw and Kuper. This article is examining the social position of African registered nurses in the Durban area in 1970, discusses four major aspects: 1. the criteria by which African registered nurses may be identified as elites; 2. some of the means by which informants differentiated themselves as a social superior category; 3. the most important ways in which these nurses were nevertheless linked to certain sections of the general (African) populations; 4. some of the problems experienced by these informants arising from their elite status. The author also relates the position of African nurses to certain features of the wider S.A. social structure. Bibl. |