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One foot in Heaven : narratives on gender and Islam in Darfur, West-Sudan / by Karin Willemse.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Willemse, Karin, 1962-
- Series:
- Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world ; v. 5.
- Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Muslim women--Sudan--Darfur--Social conditions.
- Muslim women.
- Muslim women--Government policy--Sudan--Darfur.
- Sex role--Sudan--Darfur.
- Sex role.
- Islam and culture--Sudan--Darfur.
- Islam and culture.
- Islamic law--Sudan--Darfur.
- Islamic law.
- Muslim women--Government policy.
- Social conditions.
- Darfur (Sudan)--Social conditions.
- Darfur (Sudan).
- Sudan--Darfur.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 547 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes fold-out maps.
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universiteit Leiden, 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [497]-520) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004150119
- 9004150110
- OCLC:
- 166382488
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