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Title: The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism.(Book review)
Author: Karen Garner
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 42Issue: 2Page: 377(3)

Article Type: Book review

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Maps and text chronicle the history of the Central Asian country that became independent of the Soviet Union in 1991. ... Read more

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Don't expect great pictures in this book
The title of this book is surely misleading. I looked for a book with a lot of large pictures of Uzbekistan plus some explanations - like a regular tourist books you can find almost anywhere (but not in Uzbekistan). Well, it's not that kind of book. It contains mainly text - explanation about the history, the geography, the politics of Uzbekistan, etc. And there are indeed pictures on almost every page, but they are very small and definitely not what I expected - like to see various mosques, streets, nature views, etc. You can just as well print the "Uzbekistan" entry in Wikipedia - it has more updated info and better pictures than this book. ... Read more

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Chapters: Ambassadors of Japan to Uzbekistan, British Ambassadors to Uzbekistan, United States Ambassadors to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, John E. Herbst, Jon Purnell, Stanley Tuemler Escudero, Richard Norland, Kyoko Nakayama, Joseph A. Presel, Mette Kongshem, United States Ambassador to Uzbekistan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mette Kongshem (born 7 May 1941) is a Norwegian diplomat and politician for the Conservative Party. She was born in Oslo, and is a cand.mag. by education. She started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1976. From 1981 to 1983, she served as a State Secretary in the Ministry of Trade as a part of the first cabinet Willoch. She was then a counsellor at the Norwegian embassy in the United States from 1983 to 1990, before returning to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She was the Norwegian ambassador to the Czech Republic from 1996 to 1999, deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2002, Norwegian ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe from 2002 to 2006, and Norwegian ambassador to Central Asia from 2006. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21822368 ... Read more

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The Formation of the Uzbek Nation-State is a detailed and insightful examination of the process of nation-state formation in the Central Asian region in the post-October revolution period, based on a case-study of Uzbekistan. Author Anita Sengupta examines the role of language and religion in the formation of the Uzbek nation-state and demonstrates the continuous transition involved in such a process. ... Read more

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Politics of Language in the Ex-Soviet Muslim States offers a unique and timely analysis of language policies in the central Asian states of the former Soviet Union. The authors relate these policies to broad issues such as nation-building, language planning, and multilingualism. The book is a comprehensive survey of language policy in the five newly independent states with largely Turkic-speaking populations and in the Tajic republic, with its mainly Iranian-speaking population. It addresses each state's consideration over how the use of Russian--widespread as a second language among the Turkic-speaking peoples and known as a first language for Soviet-era immigrants regardless of ethnicity--should relate to use of the local varieties of Turkic or Iranian. It also addresses efforts in each state to elaborate the local variety of Turkic or Iranian for use as public discourse in administration, law, business, and politics, including teaching the language to its nominal speakers, and considers the relation between these languages and those of local ethnic minorities. The authors utilize previously unpublished empirical data, which is presented in both a clear narrative and conceptual framework.
Jacob M. Landau is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Barbara Kellner-Heinkele is Professor of Turkic Studies, Free University of Berlin.
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As well as being a valuable and insightful study into the history, development and tenets of Islam, with particular reference to life in Uzbekistan, this study, which draws on a wide personal network and extensive field research, is also in part a personal quest in support of women's position and aspirations in the modern world. In 1991, following the collapse of the USSR, Uzbekistan reappeared on the world map as an independent state within the Russian Federation, choosing the path of secular development and the creation of a democratic society. It also declared itself to be once again part of the Islamic world, where it had been for centuries, albeit on its periphery in Inner Asia. Yet, almost instantaneously, the modernization of the state was subsumed into the reestablishment of traditional Islam which immediately impacted on the political, economic and social structure of the former Soviet' society, above all on the position of women.Remarkably, the traditional role, status and dress code of women was quickly embraced by large sections of the female population Fairly young girls, who had scarcely memorized a single sura of the Koran, started to accuse their friends of impiety. The author, who has written two other books, is a distinguished Uzbek architect and is a founder member of the Tashkent Women's Resource Centre. ... Read more

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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 Muslim Central Asia, a region Soviets saw as primitive and backward. The Soviets focused on women and the family in an effort to forge a new, "liberated" social order.

This unveiling campaign, however, 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.

New local and national identities coalesced around the very symbols that had been placed under attack. Despite their stated goals, Bolshevik leaders inadvertently strengthened the seclusion of Uzbek women. Soviet efforts were largely responsible for creating the veil as a "national" symbol emblematic of a "tradition" that actually was quite new. Northrop’s fascinating and evocative book thus shows both the fluidity of Central Asian cultural practices and the real limits that existed on Stalinist authority, even during the ostensibly totalitarian 1930s. ... Read more

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moral relativism but wonderful work
This wonderful insightful and original study tells the story of Communism and its relation with regressive Islamic attitudes in Central Asia, especially towards women.This tells the story of Communism's tentative strides towards making its Central Asian empire one of equality while at the same time trying to encourage ethnic individualism.Communism had railed against the Tsar's empire, thus when it came into contact with the Steppe peoples of Central Asia, mostly of ethnic Mongolian stock who had recently been converted to Islam and where women were required to wear long heavy veils(as evidenced by the wonderful photo on the cover and within).

The Communists had a two track approach.On the one hand they continued their ethnic encouragements to create separate republics out of the tribal material.Yet at the same time Communists opened schools for women, enrolled girls for the first time, taught women to read, and within a short time had even trained the first Uzbek female patrooper.These successes were coupled with `veil burning' events where women would be protected by tough honorable communist youth as they burned the symbols of their oppression.But this sparked protest, ethnic and religious.

The author weaves a wonderful story, the book is full of replete moral equivalency, so the Russians who are liberators of women are also seen as `imperialists' somehow suppressing a culture, but if one reads between the lines they will see that the pictures alone show the truth of Communisms crusade to bring equal rights to Asia.The process has reversed itself today, but for a short time in the 1920s idealism triumphed and women could walk down the street with their hair flowing proudly behind them, no longer confined to anonymity behind a Burka.A must read for anyone,

Seth J. Frantzman
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Translated,For The First Time, With Notes, A Preface And An Introductory Life Of Timour Beg. (reprint 1859),Dimensions:8.95 x 5.5 x 0.7 ... Read more