One foot in Heaven : narratives on gender and Islam in Darfur, West-Sudan / / by Karin Willemse.
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...
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| Superior document: | Woman and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world, v. 5 |
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| 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.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreigners, females and discourses on Islam
- The setting : relations of ruling in Kebkabiya
- Hajja's week : narrating her life in times of change
- Umm Khalthoum's narrative of her life
- Spaces and silences : comparing biographic narratives
- In the border zone : the predicament of the next generation
- The burden of boundaries : masculinities, femininities and the moral discourse
- Boundaries con/text analysed : gender identities and resistance.