One foot in Heaven [electronic resource] : narratives on gender and Islam in Darfur, West-Sudan / by Karin Willemse.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world ; v. 5.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.Description: xxii, 547 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.48/69709627 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ1170 .W48 2007eb
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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.
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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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