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

"One Foot in Heaven conflates two religious perspectives on women propagated by the Islamist government of Sudan since its inception in 1989: as mothers and wives within the walls of their compounds. Central are the biographic narratives of two working women in Kebkabiya, a town in Darfur, each...

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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 ; v. 5.
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