1st Edition

Gender Politics In Sudan Islamism, Socialism, And The State

By Sondra Hale Copyright 1997
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

Focusing on the relationship between gender and the state in the construction national identity politics in twentieth-century northern Sudan, the author investigates the mechanisms that the state and political and religious interest groups employ for achieving political and cultural hegemony. Hale argues that such a process involves the transformation of culture through the involvement of women in... Read more
List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Part One – Introduction -- Part Two – Background to Sudan and Sudanese Women -- Part Three – Two Case Studies -- Glossary -- References -- Index -- About the Book and Author.

Biography

Hale, Sondra