One Foot in Heaven: Narratives on Gender and Islam in Darfur, West-Sudan (Women and Gender: the Middle East and the Islamic World)
Publisher: Not Avail; Brill
Published: November 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 541
ISBN-13: 9789004150119
Subjects: Asian studies; Social Science; Sociology; Islamic countries; Middle East; Ethnic Studies - General; Islamic Studies; Darfur; Government policy; Muslim women; Sex role; Social conditions; Sudan
Description: "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.