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Women, Islam, and identity : public life in private spaces in Uzbekistan /

"This pioneering ethnographic work centers on the dynamics of female authority within the religious life of a conservative Muslim community in the Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan. Peshkova draws upon several years of field research to chronicle the daily lives of women religious leaders, known as...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Peshkova, Svetlana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Gender and globalization.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Self-formation and social change
  • Doing our part: the social and the individual
  • Nonliberatory discourses on women's rights
  • Pedagogy and storytelling
  • Changing lives and "national Islam"
  • From a unique Uzbek nation to a unique individual
  • Is it over? Not a conclusion.