Veiled empire : gender & power in Stalinist Central Asia /

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Drawing on research in Russian and Uzbekistani archives, the author reconstructs the turbulent history of a Soviet campaign that sought to end the seclusion of Muslim women. He shows it as emblematic of the larger Soviet attempt to bring the proletarian revolution to Muslim Central Asia.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Northrop, Douglas Taylor
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.
Series:EBSCO Academic Collection
Subjects:
1900-1999
Women and communism > Uzbekistan > History > 20th century.
Muslim women > Uzbekistan > Social conditions > 20th century.
Veils > Social aspects > Uzbekistan > History > 20th century.
Femmes et communisme > Ouzbâekistan > Histoire > 20e siáecle.
Musulmanes > Ouzbâekistan > Conditions sociales > 20e siáecle.
Voiles (Coiffures) > Aspect social > Ouzbâekistan > Histoire > 20e siáecle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Muslim women > Social conditions
International relations
Veils > Social aspects
Women and communism
Frauenpolitik
Gleichberechtigung
Kommunismus
Islam
Frau
Vrouwen.
Islam.
Communisme.
Soviet Union > Relations > Uzbekistan.
Uzbekistan > Relations > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union
Uzbekistan
Mittelasien
Usbekistan
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Embodying Uzbekistan
  • Hujum, 1927
  • Bolshevik blinders
  • The Chust affair
  • Subaltern voices
  • With friends like these
  • Crimes of daily life
  • The limits of law
  • Stalin's Central Asia?
  • Conclusion.

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