Description |
1 online resource (312 pages) |
Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Part One Introduction; 1 Theory, Living Fieldwork, and Autobiography: An Introduction; Setting the Problematic; Political Institutions, Gender, and Identity Politics; A Question of Methods: Reveries of a Reluctant Interventionist; Locating the Work; Development of the Argument; Notes; 2 Locating Sudanese Women's Studies; Introduction; Gender and Middle Eastern Studies; Feminist Scholarship on the Middle East; Sudanese Women's Studies; Notes |
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Part Two Background to Sudan and Sudanese Women3 History and Political Economy: Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, and the State; Situating the Study; History and Ethnography; The State, Gender, Religion, and the Military: The Dynamics of Post-Independence Politics; Notes; 4 Women in Contemporary Northern Sudan; Introduction; Technology and ""Development"": Neocolonialism and Gender Ideology; The Conditions of Women's Lives-Sudanese Perspectives on Demographics, Education, and Labor-A Commentary; The Conditions of Women's Lives-Sudanese Perspectives on Legal and Political Status-A Commentary |
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ConclusionNotes; Part Three Two Case Studies; 5 The Wing of the Patriarch: The Sudanese Communist Party and the Women's Union; Introduction; The Sudanese Communist Party and the Women's Union; Conclusion; Notes; 6 Islamism and the Women Activists of the National Islamic Front; Introduction; Overprivileging Islam?; Background: Nimieri's State, Islam, and the Rise of Islamism; Women, Labor, Education, and Personal Status Laws-The Public Debates; Public Debates on the Social Construction of Woman-Commentaries on the Islamists, Sharia, and Everyday Life; Conclusion; Notes |
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7 Culture and Transformation: Concluding RemarksIntroduction; Culture, Gender (Women's) Interests, and the Sudanese Communist Party; Islam, the Sudanese Communist Party, and the National Islamic Front; The Invention of an ""Authentic"" Culture; The Problematics of Emancipation; Notes; Glossary; References; Index; About the Book and Author |
Summary |
Focusing on the relationship between gender and the state in the construction of national identity politics in twentieth-century northern Sudan, the author investigates the mechanisms that the state and political and religious interest groups employ for achieving political and cultural hegemony. Hale argues that such a process involves the transformation of culture through the involvement of women in both left-wing and Islamist revolutionary movements. In drawing parallels between the gender ideology of secular and religious organizations in Sudan, Hale analyzes male positioning of women within the culture to serve the movement. Using data from fieldwork conducted between 1961 and 1988, she investigates the conditions under which women's culture can be active, generative, positive expressions of resistance and transformation. Hale argues that in northern Sudan women may be using Islam to construct their own identity and improve their situation. Nevertheless, she raises questions about the barriers that women may face, now that the Islamic state is achieving hegemony, and discusses the limits of identity politics |
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Women -- Political activity -- Sudan
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Women and socialism -- Sudan
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Women in Islam -- Sudan
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Feminism -- Sudan
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Feminism.
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Women and socialism.
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Women in Islam.
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Women -- Political activity.
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Vrouwen
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Politieke bewegingen
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Frau
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Politik
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Femmes et socialisme -- Soudan
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Femmes dans l'islam -- Soudan
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FĂ©minisme -- Soudan
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Femmes et politique -- Soudan
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feminism.
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Feminism
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Women and socialism
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Women in Islam
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Women -- Political activity
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Sudan
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Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780429979880 |
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0429979886 |
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