Women Archives - Voices On Cental Asia

From Central Asia to India: Women of the Mughal Empire

May 31, 2023

Ira Mukhoty is an Indian writer who writes about forgotten heroines of Indian history.Two of her books—Heroines: Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History and Daughters of the Sun: Empresses,…

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14 min

A Woman with a Camera in Uzbekistan: Umida Akhmedova about Herself

May 3, 2023

The most famous woman with a camera in Central Asia, Umida Akhmedova—a photographer and the author of significant documentary works—talks about herself, her creative and personal path, self-realization in the…

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15 min

A Woman, an Actress, a Jadid? Reflecting on a Recent Exhibition in London

December 16, 2022

Last month, an exciting photographic exhibition on Central Asia, entitled “Bound for Life and Education”: Sara Eshonturaeva and the Jadid Movement in Soviet Uzbekistan, was shown at Asia House in…

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19 min

Music and Women in Afghanistan and Central Asia: An Interview with Razia Sultanova

November 14, 2022

Music occupies an enormous place in Central Asia, and in particular in Afghanistan. Dr. Razia Sultanova, a musicologist and cultural anthropologist, has studied the music of the Uzbeks and other…

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32 min

Early Soviet Modernization in the Lives of Kazakh Women

October 19, 2022

In her book entitled Modernization of the Early Soviet Era in the Fate of Women of Kazakhstan, 1920–1930: Monograph (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, 2017), Janat Kundakbayeva, Doctor of Historical Sciences…

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8 min

Falling Off the Pedestal: Victim-blaming and Nationalism in Kazakhstan

August 2, 2022

Over the past few years, there has been a marked increase in the volume of content on the topic of how to be a “true Kazakh woman.” Among the most…

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12 min

Women, Kinship, and Property in Central Asia

June 16, 2022

Author Aksana Ismailbekova Aksana Ismailbekova is a research fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum-Moderner Orient (ZMO). Ismailbekova completed her PhD dissertation at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in…

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11 min

Rural Women in Kyrgyzstan: “Ayalzattyn tagdyry: mezgil kүүsүndө” (Women’s Fates Don’t Choose Times). An Interview with Cholpon Koichumanova

May 6, 2022

For the last few years, Professor Cholpon Koichumanova has been working on a project studying the role and place of women in modern Kyrgyzstan. The project has been implemented with…