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The new woman in Uzbekistan : Islam, modernity, and unveiling under communism / Marianne Kamp.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kamp, Marianne.
- Series:
- Jackson School publications in international studies.
- Jackson School publications in international studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Uzbekistan--History.
- Women.
- Women--Uzbekistan--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (350 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Winner of the Association of Women in Slavic Studies Heldt PrizeWinner of the Central Eurasian Studies Society History and Humanities Book AwardHonorable 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.
- Contents:
- Russian colonialism in Turkestan and Bukhara
- Jadids and the reform of women
- The revolution and rights for Uzbek women
- The otin and the Soviet school
- New women
- Unveiling before the Hujum
- The Hujum
- The counter-Hujum: terror and veiling
- Continuity and change in Uzbek women's lives
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-318) and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9780295802473
- 0295802472
- OCLC:
- 757822988
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