The New Woman in Uzbekistan
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The New Woman in Uzbekistan

Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

The New Woman in Uzbekistan

Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism

About this book

Winner of the Association of Women in Slavic Studies Heldt Prize Winner of the Central Eurasian Studies Society History and Humanities Book Award Honorable mention for the W. Bruce Lincoln Prize Book Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) This groundbreaking work in women's history explores the lives of Uzbek women, in their own voices and words, before and after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Drawing upon their oral histories and writings, Marianne Kamp reexamines the Soviet Hujum, the 1927 campaign in Soviet Central Asia to encourage mass unveiling as a path to social and intellectual "liberation." This engaging examination of changing Uzbek ideas about women in the early twentieth century reveals the complexities of a volatile time: why some Uzbek women chose to unveil, why many were forcibly unveiled, why a campaign for unveiling triggered massive violence against women, and how the national memory of this pivotal event remains contested today.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. A Note on Transliteration and Abbreviations
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. Russian Colonialism in Turkestan and Bukhara
  6. 2. Jadids and the Reform of Women
  7. 3. The Revolution and Rights for Uzbek Women
  8. 4. The Otin and the Soviet School
  9. 5. New Women
  10. 6. Unveiling before the Hujum
  11. 7. The Hujum
  12. 8. The Counter-Hujum: Terror and Veiling
  13. 9. Continuity and Change in Uzbek Women’s Lives
  14. 10. Conclusions
  15. Notes
  16. Glossary
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index