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The new woman in Uzbekistan : Islam, modernity, and unveiling under communism /

"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 Asi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kamp, Marianne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2006.
Series:Jackson School publications in international studies.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.