The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism
by
Marianne Kamp
Call Number: HQ1735.27 .K36 2006
Publication Date: 2006
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 Asia to encourage mass unveiling as a path to social and intellectual "liberation."