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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Willemse, Karin, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Colección:Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world ; v. 5.
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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.