Transforming displaced women in Sudan
Subtitle: politics and the body in a squatter settlement
By: Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780226001999; 9780226002002
Subjects: Squatter settlements -- Sudan -- Khartoum; Squatters -- Sudan -- Khartoum; Internally displaced persons -- Sudan -- Khartoum; Women -- Sudan -- Khartoum -- Social conditions; Khartoum (Sudan) -- Social conditions
Description: Over 20 years of civil war in predominantly Christian Southern Sudan has forced countless people from their homes. This book examines the lives of women who have forged a new community in a shantytown on the outskirts of Khartoum, the largely Muslim heavily Arabized capital in the north of the country.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: through the eyes of the displaced; title: Dissent historicized; title: Becoming displaced; title: Gendered rituals; title: Negotiating peace; title: Epilogue: "this is my country"; title: Appendix A: primary informants; title: Appendix B: camps and shantytowns in Greater Khartoum, Sudan; title: Appendix C: profile of women in Izzbba.