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Women’s Lives and Livelihoods in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan: Ceremonies of Empowerment...
Women's Lives and Livelihoods in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan presents women's voices and their experiences of carrying out livelihood activities such as...
Category: Central Asia, Economics, Gender, Uzbekistan
From Shamanism to Sufism: Women, Islam and Culture in Central...
Based on evidence derived from over fifteen years of fieldwork, From Shamanism to Sufism shows how women kept traditional Islamic...
Category: Central Asia, Culture, Gender, Religion
Gender Epistemologies and Eurasian Borderlands
Tlostanova examines Central Asia and the Caucasus to trace the genealogy of feminism in those regions following the dissolution of...
Category: Central Asia, Culture, Gender, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Politics, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
XX век глазами женщин Узбекистана (воспоминания, устные истории, письма и...
The book is composed of oral stories, letters and diaries of fifteen women from Uzbekistan. Their memories span more than...
Category: Central Asia, Gender, History, Uzbekistan
The Re-Islamization of Society and the Position of Women in...
This book explores the history and development of Islam, with particular reference to the role of women in Uzbek society....
Category: Central Asia, Gender, Religion, Uzbekistan
The Daughters of Amazons: Voices from Central Asia
The book is an attempt to interpret the meaning of women's lives, to give voice to the female intelligentsia of...
Category: Central Asia, Gender, Uzbekistan
Between the Slogans of Communism and the Laws of Islam:...
Marfua Tokhtakhodjaeva reflects on how circumstances have changed for women and feminine activists in independentUzbekistan.
Category: Central Asia, Gender, Uzbekistan