{"subjects": ["Muslim women", "Sex role", "Islamic law, africa", "Sudan, social conditions", "Social conditions", "Government policy", "Islam and culture", "Islamic law", "Frau", "Lebenslauf", "Geschlecht", "Geschlechtsrolle", "Islam"], "key": "/works/OL10077418W", "title": "One Foot in Heaven: Narratives on Gender and Islam in Darfur, West-Sudan (Women and Gender: the Middle East and the Islamic World)", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL4058804A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [3338105], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"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."}, "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-11T02:10:32.891218"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-08-04T23:37:52.345427"}}