This work explores the relationship between gender and the state in the construction of national identity politics in twentieth-century Sudan, focusing on the mechanisms that the state and political and religious interest groups employ to achieve political and cultural hegemony. Looking at the involvement of women in both left-wing and Islamist revolutionary movements, Hale investigates the conditions under which women's culture can be active, generative, positive expressions of resistance and transformation. She also ...
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This work explores the relationship between gender and the state in the construction of national identity politics in twentieth-century Sudan, focusing on the mechanisms that the state and political and religious interest groups employ to achieve political and cultural hegemony. Looking at the involvement of women in both left-wing and Islamist revolutionary movements, Hale investigates the conditions under which women's culture can be active, generative, positive expressions of resistance and transformation. She also raises questions about the limits that women may face, now that the Islamic state is achieving hegemony.
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