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Khartoum at Night - Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan (Paperback)
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Khartoum at Night - Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan (Paperback)
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In the first half of the twentieth century, a pioneering generation
of young women exited their homes and entered public space, marking
a new era for women's civic participation in northern Sudan. A
provocative new public presence, women's civic engagement was at
its core a bodily experience. Amid the socio-political upheavals of
imperial rule, female students, medical workers, and activists used
a careful choreography of body movements and fashion to adapt to
imperial mores, claim opportunities for political agency, and shape
a new standard of modern, mobile womanhood. Khartoum at Night is
the first English-language history of these women's lives,
examining how their experiences of the British Empire from
1900-1956 were expressed on and through their bodies. Central to
this story is the tobe: a popular, modest form of dress that
wrapped around a woman's head and body. Marie Grace Brown shows how
northern Sudanese women manipulated the tucks, folds, and social
messages of the tobe to deftly negotiate the competing pulls of
modernization and cultural authenticity that defined much of the
imperial experience. Her analysis weaves together the threads of
women's education and activism, medical midwifery, urban life,
consumption, and new behaviors of dress and beauty to reconstruct
the worlds of politics and pleasure in which
early-twentieth-century Sudanese women lived.
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