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Azeri Women in Transition Farideh Heyat Nfa

Azeri Women in Transition By Farideh Heyat Nfa

Azeri Women in Transition by Farideh Heyat Nfa

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This study of women and gender in a Muslim society draws on archival and literary sources as well as the life stories of women to offer a unique ethnographic and historical account of the lives of urban women in contemporary Azerbaijan.

Azeri Women in Transition Summary

Azeri Women in Transition: Women in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan by Farideh Heyat Nfa

First book length treatment of Muslim Soviet Women

Cross disciplinary - gender and women's studies, anthropology, Central Asia and Caucasus

Suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate level

Offers a new dimension for specialists on gender relations in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, where previous work has mostly had a Russian perspective

For Middle East specialists, provides insights into a region closed to researchers and its non-soviet neighbours for much of the 20th century

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'The book shows the changes of women lives, both in the context of developing capitalism and colonial relations in the pre-Soviet era, and under the Soviet system and it reveals the ways in which local cultural expectations and Islamic beliefs were accommodated in various modernisation projects.'

- http://www.frauensolidaritaet.org

'The author also looks at the impact of the Soviet system on women's domestic, public, and work relations, and their conceptions of femininity. In the final chapter Heyrat discusses the pattern of employment of women today in relation to Azerbaijan's market economy.'- http://www.frauensolidaritaet.org

About Farideh Heyat Nfa

Farideh Heyat is an anthropologist and writer, currently based at SOAS, University of London.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Narratives of Self and Community in Transition 2. The Pre-Soviet Period and Social Geography of Baku 3. Early Azeri Modernisation: the Position of Women 4. The Soviet Revolution and Azeri Women 5. Religious Hearts and Atheist Minds 6. Professional Women's Coping Strategies: Home and the Workplace 7. Contradiction and Ambiguity: The Management of Femininities in Soviet Azerbaijan Conclusion

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NPB9780700716623
9780700716623
0700716629
Azeri Women in Transition: Women in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan by Farideh Heyat Nfa
Farideh Heyat Nfa
Central Asia Research Forum
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2002-06-20
236
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