One foot in Heaven [electronic resource] : narratives on gender and Islam in Darfur, West-Sudan / by Karin Willemse.
By: Willemse, Karin.
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Series: Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world: v. 5.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007Description: xxii, 547 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.Subject(s): 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 | Darfur (Sudan) -- Social conditionsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.48/69709627 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes fold-out maps.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universiteit Leiden, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [497]-520) and index.
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.
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