Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan - Politics and the Body in a Squatter Settlement

Zusammenfassung 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. This book examines the way women's bodies are politicized by their displacement, analyzing issues such as religious conversion, marriage, and female circumcision.

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• Authors: Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Abusharaf Rogaia Mustafa
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2009
• EAN: 9780226001999
• ISBN: 978-0-226-00199-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Sudan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum