One foot in Heaven : narratives on gender and Islam in Darfur, West-Sudan /

One foot in Heaven : narratives on gender and Islam in Darfur, West-Sudan /

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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Main Author: Willemse, Karin, 1962-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Series: Women and Gender: The Middle East and the Islamic World 5.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2007, ISBN: 9789004223028.

Subjects:

Frau > Lebenslauf > Darfur.
Geschlecht.
Geschlechtsrolle > Islam > Darfur.
Islam > Geschlechtsrolle > Darfur.
Islam.
Lebenslauf > Frau > Darfur.
Muslim women > Sudan > Darfur > Social conditions.
Darfur.
Darfur (Sudan) > Social conditions.

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Call Number: HQ1170 .W48 2007

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • K. Willemse
  • Introduction. Setting Out For Research /
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  • Part One. Settings Discourses And Contexts /
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  • Chapter 1. Foreigners, Females And Discourses On Islam /
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  • Chapter 2. The Setting: Relations Of Ruling In Kebkabiya /
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  • Part Two. Settling Biographic Narratives As Texts-In-Context /
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  • Intermezzo. Crossing The Road: Introducing Hajja And Umm Khalthoum /
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  • Chapter 3. Hajja'S Week: Narrating Her Life In Times Of Change /
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  • Chapter 4. Umm Khalthoum'S Narrative Of Her Life /
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  • Chapter 5. Spaces And Silences: Comparing Biographic Narratives /
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  • Part Three. Unsettled In The Border Zone /
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  • Chapter 6. In The Border Zone: The Predicament Of The Next Generation /
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  • Chapter 7. The Burden Of Boundaries: Masculinities, Femininities And The Moral Discourse /
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  • Chapter 8. Boundaries Con/Text Analysed: Gender Identities And Resistance /
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  • Bibliography /
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  • Annex 1. Tables With Results From The Survey In Kebkabiya Town 1991 /
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  • Index /
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