Gender Politics in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism, and the State

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Part One Introduction -- 1 Theory, Living Fieldwork, and Autobiography: An Introduction -- Setting the Problematic -- Political Institutions, Gender, and Identity Politics -- A Question of Methods: Reveries of a Reluctant Interventionist -- Locating the Work -- Development of the Argument -- Notes -- 2 Locating Sudanese Women's Studies -- Introduction -- Gender and Middle Eastern Studies -- Feminist Scholarship on the Middle East -- Sudanese Women's Studies -- Notes -- Part Two Background to Sudan and Sudanese Women -- 3 History and Political Economy: Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, and the State -- Situating the Study -- History and Ethnography -- The State, Gender, Religion, and the Military: The Dynamics of Post-Independence Politics -- Notes -- 4 Women in Contemporary Northern Sudan -- Introduction -- Technology and "Development": Neocolonialism and Gender Ideology -- The Conditions of Women's Lives-Sudanese Perspectives on Demographics, Education, and Labor-A Commentary -- The Conditions of Women's Lives-Sudanese Perspectives on Legal and Political Status-A Commentary -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part Three Two Case Studies -- 5 The Wing of the Patriarch: The Sudanese Communist Party and the Women's Union -- Introduction -- The Sudanese Communist Party and the Women's Union -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Islamism and the Women Activists of the National Islamic Front -- Introduction -- Overprivileging Islam? -- Background: Nimieri's State, Islam, and the Rise of Islamism -- Women, Labor, Education, and Personal Status Laws-The Public Debates -- Public Debates on the Social Construction of Woman-Commentaries on the Islamists, Sharia, and Everyday Life -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Culture and Transformation: Concluding Remarks

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Gender politics in Sudan: islamism, socialism, and the state

Hale, Sondra

Hale, Sondra

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