The New Woman in Uzbekistan

Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling Under Communism

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."

However, Muslims had much easier access to divorce than Christians, whose
family status was ruled by Russian Orthodox church laws. 1 3. Validimir Petrovich
Nalivkin and M. Nalivkina, Ocherk byta zhenshchiny osed- lago tuzemnago
naseleniia Fergany (Kazan': Tipografiia Imperatorskago Universiteta, 1 886), 2 29
. The Nalivkins' source for commentary on Islamic legal practice is not clear. If the
conditions that they described were based on actual practice, then practice in
Central ...