The New Woman in Uzbekistan

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The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling Under Communism by Marianne Kamp

This groundbreaking work in women’s history explores the lives of Uzbek women, in their own voices and words, during the Soviet Hujum, the 1927 campaign in Soviet Central Asia to encourage mass unveiling as a path to social and intellectual “liberation.”