Description
| Summary: | "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 belonging to a different class: low-class market women and highly esteemed female teachers. Based on anthropological research (1990-1995) the author analyses the narratives as part of the multi-layered context in which these were performed - and of which the author also formed part. She shows how these women constructed identities while negotiating the Islamist moral discourse on gender in a period of ethnic conflict, religious transformation and the waging of the first Gulf-war."--Jacket
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 547 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-520) and index. |
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| ISBN: | 9789047422983
9047422988
1281925926
9781281925923
9786611925925
6611925929 |
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| ISSN: | 1570-7628 ; |
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| Language: | English. |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
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