Central Asian women confronting transition
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Corcoran-Nantes, Yvonne
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- O EUR 1E 2005
- Thesaurus
- landen in transitie, feminisme, socialisme, islam, kapitalisme, betaalde arbeid, gezinnen, empowerment, Oezbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazachstan
- Description
- The author considers how the shift to Western capitalist ideals has affected gender relations in the region.While the uneasy synthesis between socialism and islam under the Soviet regime offered many women considerable status and personal freedom these gains have been rapidly eroded by 'democratization'.