One foot in Heaven
Subtitle: narratives on gender and Islam in Darfur, West-Sudan
By: by Karin Willemse.
Series: Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world -- 5
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 547
ISBN-13: 9789004150119
Subjects: Muslim women -- Sudan -- Darfur -- Social conditions.; Muslim women -- Government policy -- Sudan -- Darfur.; Sex role -- Sudan -- Darfur.; Islam and culture -- Sudan -- Darfur.; Islamic law -- Sudan -- Darfur.; Darfur (Sudan) -- Social conditions.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universiteit Leiden, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreigners, females and discourses on Islam; title: The setting : relations of ruling in Kebkabiya; title: Hajja's week : narrating her life in times of change; title: Umm Khalthoum's narrative of her life; title: Spaces and silences : comparing biographic narratives; title: In the borderzone : the predicament of the next generation; title: The burden of boundaries : masculinities, feminities and the moral discourse; title: Boundaries con/text analysed : gender identities and resistance