Veiled Empire : : Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia /

Veiled Empire : : Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia / / Douglas T. Northrop.

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 v...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Northrop, Douglas T.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.) :; 5 tables, 5 maps, 37 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Maps
  • Source Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Introduction
  • 1. Embodying Uzbekistan
  • 2. Hujum, 1927
  • 3. Bolshevik Blinders
  • 4. The Chust Affair
  • 5. Subaltern Voices
  • 6. With Friends Like These
  • 7. Crimes of Daily Life
  • 8. The Limits of Law
  • 9. Stalin's Central Asia?
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Glossary
  • Note on Sources
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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