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One foot in Heaven

Willemse, Karin, 1962-

One foot in Heaven narratives on gender and Islam in Darfur, West-Sudan / [electronic resource] : by Karin Willemse. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007. - xxii, 547 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps. - Woman and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world, v. 5 1570-7628 ; . - Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world ; v. 5. .

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.






Muslim women--Social conditions.--Sudan--Darfur
Muslim women--Government policy--Sudan--Darfur.
Sex role--Sudan--Darfur.
Islam and culture--Sudan--Darfur.
Islamic law--Sudan--Darfur.


Darfur (Sudan)--Social conditions.


Electronic books.

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