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1887–1970 South Africa

Anna Petronella van Heerden(1887–1975), was the first Afrikaner woman to qualify as a medical doctor. Her thesis, for which she obtained a doctorate in 1923, was the first medical thesis written in Afrikaans.

South Africa
Academics
Physicians

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My analysis is underpinned by relevant life writing and feminist criticism, such as the notion of female.

She gave up practicing medicine and came to Harrismith to farm cattle and was legendary among the boere here.

It investigates questions of nationalism, gender and sexuality in the autobiographical texts of Petronella van Heerden and Elsa Joubert.

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