One foot in Heaven : narratives on gender and Islam in Darfur, West-Sudan / / by Karin Willemse.

• Superior document: Woman and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world, v. 5
• Author: Willemse, Karin, 1962-
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world ; v. 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (579 p.)
• Notes: Includes fold-out maps.; Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universiteit Leiden, 2001.

This book is based on extensive anthropological field-research in Kebkabiya, a town in Darfur, West-Sudan(1990-1995), when the Islamist government of Sudan had just come to power. The title of the book is a conflation of two main government perspectives on the role of women. These proved to be decis...