Buch
Monografie
Veiled empire : gender and power in Stalinist Central Asia
Verfasst von:
Northrop, Douglas
Ithaca, N.Y. [u. a.]:
Cornell Univ. Press
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2004
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392 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Northrop, Douglas |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Cornell paperbacks
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ., 1. print. Cornell paperbacks |
| Jahr: | 2004 |
| Maße: | 24cm |
| ISBN: | 0801488915 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Douglas Northrop 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 Northrops view, emblematic of the larger Soviet attempt to bring the proletarian revolution to Muslim Central Asia, a region Bolsheviks saw as primitive and backward. It took place in the context of a half-century of Russian colonization and the long-standing suspicion of rural Muslim peasants toward an urban, colonial state. Widespread resistance to the idea of unveiling quickly appeared and developed into a broader anti-Soviet animosity among Uzbeks of both sexes. Over the next quarter-century a bitter and often violent confrontation ensued, with battles being waged over indigenous practices of veiling and seclusion. Veils became powerful anticolonial symbols for the Uzbek nation as well as important markers of Muslim propriety. Northrop's book shows both the fluidity of Central Asian cultural practices and the real limits that existed on Stalinist authority, even during the ostensibly totalitarian 1930s. | |
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| Quellen- u. Literaturverz. S. 371 - 383 | |
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