TY - BOOK ID - 18055312 TI - Veiled empire : gender & power in Stalinist Central Asia PY - 2004 SN - 0801488915 1501702963 1501702971 9781501702976 9781501702969 0801439442 9780801439445 9780801488917 PB - Ithaca, New York ; London, [England] : Cornell University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Muslim women KW - Veils KW - Women and communism KW - Social conditions KW - Social aspects KW - History KW - Political philosophy. Social philosophy KW - Sociology of culture KW - Islam KW - Social policy KW - Religious studies KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - Central Asia KW - Headgear KW - Hijab (Islamic clothing) KW - Islamic women KW - Women, Muslim KW - Women KW - Communism and women KW - Communism KW - Soviet Union KW - Uzbekistan KW - Relations KW - Ȯzbăkistan KW - Oʻzbekiston Respublikasi KW - Republic of Uzbekistan KW - Respublika Uzbekistan KW - Usbekistan KW - Uzbakastān KW - Uzbakistān KW - Ŭzbekiston KW - Ŭzbekiston Respublikasi KW - Uzbekiston Respublikasy KW - Wuzibiekesitan KW - ازبکستان KW - 乌兹别克斯坦 KW - Uzbek S.S.R. KW - Советский Союз KW - Ber. ha-M. KW - Zwia̦zek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich KW - Szovjetunió KW - TSRS KW - Tarybų Socialistinių Respublikų Sąjunga KW - SRSR KW - Soi︠u︡z Radi︠a︡nsʹkykh Sot︠s︡ialistychnykh Respublik KW - SSSR KW - Soi︠u︡z Sovetskikh Sot︠s︡ialisticheskikh Respublik KW - UdSSR KW - Shūravī KW - Ittiḥād-i Jamāhīr-i Ishtirākīyah-i Shūrāʼīyah KW - Russia (1923- U.S.S.R.) KW - Sovetskiy Soyuz KW - Soyuz SSR KW - Sovetskiĭ Soi︠u︡z KW - Soi︠u︡z SSR KW - Uni Sovjet KW - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics KW - USSR KW - SSṚM KW - Sovetakan Sotsʻialistakan Ṛespublikaneri Miutʻyun KW - SSHM KW - Sovetakan Sotsʻialistakan Hanrapetutʻyunneri Miutʻyun KW - URSS KW - Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas KW - Berit ha-Moʻatsot KW - Rusyah KW - Ittiḥād al-Sūfiyītī KW - Rusiyah KW - Rusland KW - Soṿet-Rusland KW - Uni Soviet KW - Union soviétique KW - Zȯvlȯlt Kholboot Uls KW - Związek Radziecki KW - ESSD KW - Sahaphāp Sōwīat KW - KhSHM KW - SSR Kavširi KW - Russland KW - SNTL KW - PSRS KW - Su-lien KW - Sobhieṭ Ẏuniẏana KW - FSSR KW - Unione Sovietica KW - Ittiḥād-i Shūravī KW - Soviyat Yūniyan KW - Russian S.F.S.R. KW - Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich KW - ZSRR KW - Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Sowieckich KW - ZSRS KW - Muslimahs KW - Government policy KW - Book KW - Veil UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:18055312 AB - 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 Bolsheviks 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 these very practices that had been placed under attack. Veils became powerful anticolonial symbols for the Uzbek nation as well as important markers of Muslim propriety. Bolshevik leaders, who had seen this campaign as an excellent way to enlist allies while proving their own European credentials as enlightened reformers, thus inadvertently strengthened the seclusion of Uzbek women-precisely the reverse of what they set out to do. Northrop's fascinating and evocative 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. ER -