MUSLIM WOMEN IN SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA

Bu çalışma, Sovyet rejiminin Müslüman kadınların yaşam biçimleri üzerindeki etkisini anlamakiçin Sovyet Orta Asya’sını tarihsel bir perspektiften analiz etmektedir. Özellikle, Orta Asya’dakiMüslüman kadınları özgürleştirmek adına Sovyet yetkilileri tarafından yürürlüğe konan kanun vepolitikaların temel nedenlerine odaklanmaktadır. Araştırmanın temel argümanı, Sovyetyetkililerinin hem kamusal hem de özel yaşam alanlarında Orta Asya kadınlarını ataerkil yapıdankurtarmak için sahici bir niyeti olsa da, uygulanan politika ve uygulamaların temelde rejiminhayatta kalmasına yönelik olduğudur. Sovyet rejiminin ilk yıllarında kadınların kurtuluşuprojesini çoğunlukla ideolojik niyetler şekillendirmiştir.

This study analyzes the Soviet Central Asia from a historical perspective to understand the impact of the Soviet regime on Muslim women’s lifestyles. It specifically focuses on the underlying reasons of laws and policies put into effect by the Soviet officials in the name of emancipating Muslim women in Central Asia. The main argument of the study is that even though the Soviet officials had a genuine intention for the emancipation of Central Asian women from the patriarchal structure both in the public and private spheres of life, the policies and their implementations were shaped in accordance with the basic motive of the regime to survive. In the first years of the Soviet regime, mostly ideological intentions shaped the women’s emancipation project.

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