The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling Under Communism

by Kamp, Marianne

• ISBN13: 9780295988191
• ISBN10: 0295988193
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Summary

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 re-examines 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
A Note on Transliteration and Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 3
Russian Colonialism in Turkestan and Bukhara	p. 19
Jadids and the Reform of Women	p. 32
The Revolution and Rights for Uzbek Women	p. 53
The Otin and the Soviet School	p. 76
New Women	p. 94
Unveiling before the Hujum	p. 123
The Hujum	p. 150
The Counter-Hujum: Terror and Veiling	p. 186
Continuity and Change in Uzbek Women's Lives	p. 215
Conclusions	p. 229
Notes	p. 239
Glossary	p. 293
Bibliography	p. 299
Index	p. 319
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