One foot in Heaven : narratives on gender and Islam in Darfur, West-Sudan /
"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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2007.
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Colección: | Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world ;
v. 5. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.