"PARADISE AT THE FEET OF MOTHERS AND WOMEN": Soviet and Post-Soviet Discourses of Muslim Women's Emancipation

Abstract

During several generations of human life in Central Asia, powerful political and ideological divergence touched women to a greater extent than men. This simultaneously became the subject of several cultural revolutions and social experiments. This article explores forms of emancipation peddled to women, and their confrontation with forms of modernization that local Muslim theologians tried to formulate and defend. In any case, succession of experiments and changes did not remain traceless in the life of women of Uzbekistan.