Jan 12, 2023 · 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.

Aug 22, 2017 · 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 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.

Jul 11, 2017 · Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan [Brown, Marie Grace] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan

As Marie Grace Brown eloquently demonstrates in Khartoum at Night, Alaa Salah used more than words to mobilize the movement—her dress referenced the long history of women’s embodied political action and the symbolic power of dress in the struggle to bring down the President, who was ousted two days later on April 11, 2019.

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Aug 22, 2017 · 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.

Apr 2, 2019 · Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan tells the story of the British-Egyptian colonization of the Sudan through a history of northern urban Sudanese women’s daily and bodily encounters with it—for “empire was lived at close range” (3).

Nov 1, 2019 · In this evocative and well-crafted monograph, Marie Grace Brown recounts a history of Sudan with women’s bodies and dress as her record. The title of the book, Khartoum at Night, is taken from the name of a popular 1950s tobe, the traditional dress of Sudanese women.