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Author Willemse, Karin, 1962-

Title One foot in Heaven : narratives on gender and Islam in Darfur, West-Sudan / by Karin Willemse
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 547 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Series Woman and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world, 1570-7628 ; v. 5
Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world ; v. 5.
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
Summary "One Foot in Heaven conflates two religious perspectives on women propagated by the Islamist government of Sudan since its inception in 1989: as mothers and wives within the walls of their compounds. Central are the biographic narratives of two working women in Kebkabiya, a town in Darfur, each belonging to a different class: low-class market women and highly esteemed female teachers. Based on anthropological research (1990-1995) the author analyses the narratives as part of the multi-layered context in which these were performed - and of which the author also formed part. She shows how these women constructed identities while negotiating the Islamist moral discourse on gender in a period of ethnic conflict, religious transformation and the waging of the first Gulf-war."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-520) and index
Notes English
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Subject Muslim women -- Sudan -- Darfur -- Social conditions
Muslim women -- Government policy -- Sudan -- Darfur
Sex role -- Sudan -- Darfur
Islam and culture -- Sudan -- Darfur
Islamic law -- Sudan -- Darfur
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Islam and culture
Islamic law
Muslim women -- Government policy
Muslim women -- Social conditions
Sex role
Social conditions
Islam
Geschlecht
Islam -- Geschlechtsrolle -- Darfur.
Geschlechtsrolle -- Islam -- Darfur.
Frau -- Lebenslauf -- Darfur.
Lebenslauf -- Frau -- Darfur.
Muslimska kvinnor -- sociala förhållanden -- Sudan (stat)
Muslimska kvinnor -- statlig politik -- Sudan (stat)
Könsroller -- Sudan (stat)
Islamisk rätt -- Sudan (stat)
Religion och kultur -- Sudan (stat)
SUBJECT Darfur (Sudan) -- Social conditions
Subject Sudan -- Darfur
Darfur
Darfur -- sociala förhållanden.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789047422983
9047422988
1281925926
9781281925923
9786611925925
6611925929