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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Russian Colonialism in Turkestan and Bukhara -- 2. Jadids and the Reform of Women -- 3. The Revolution and Rights for Uzbek Women -- 4. The Otin and the Soviet School -- 5. New Women -- 6. Unveiling before the Hujum -- 7. The Hujum -- 8. The Counter-Hujum: Terror and Veiling -- 9. Continuity and Change in Uzbek Women's Lives -- 10. Conclusions -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

An anthropologist with long ties to a border town in Central Asia watched as nationalist sentiment turned what had been an informal boundary into a hard divide between erstwhile neighbors.

While Soviet efforts to promote gender equality are not openly celebrated, the idea planted in the region during that now-disdained era—that men and women should be equal under the law—is still holding fast.

In 1917, a year of revolutionary change in the Russian Empire, Muslim women organized a congress in order to propose and debate resolutions that they hoped would be incorporated into Russia's new constitution. Transcripts from the April Congress in Kazan provide evidence that participants sharply disagreed over whether polygyny should be permitted, limited, or abrogated, and they used these debates to articulate their own understandings of rights. While women religious scholars pursued efforts to reread the Qur'an in order to emphasize justice, other educated Muslim women favored historicizing the Qur'an to argue that equality and justice for women in the twentieth century would differ from justice in the time of the Prophet.