[PDF.13jo] Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia

Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia

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 | #1007010 in Books |  Cornell University Press |  2003-12-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.18 x.95 x6.22l,1.28 | File type: PDF | 416 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Customer|IN good conditions!|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| An Uphill Battle|By Nancy T. Hernandez|Regardless of Soviet propaganda to the contrary, it is revealing to see how difficult it is to change traditions regarding a woman's place in a culture.|0 of 0 people found the following review| ||"Few doubt that Central Asia labors under a Soviet legacy, but precisely what that legacy is remains elusive. Northrop goes a long way toward reconstructing a key piece of it: the history of the Bolsheviks' effort to uproot the old and impose the new on the M

Drawing on extensive research in the archives of Russia and Uzbekistan, Douglas Northrop here reconstructs the turbulent history of a Soviet campaign that sought to end the seclusion of Muslim women. In Uzbekistan it focused above all on a massive effort to eliminate the heavy horsehair-and-cotton veils worn by many women and girls. This campaign against the veil was, in Northrop's view, emblematic of the larger Soviet attempt to bring the proletarian revolution to Mu...

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