CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Ataeva, Gulrano |
|---|---|
| Title | Perestroika in Central Asia: Transforming the Image of Women and Nation in 1985-1991 in the Kyrgyz and Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republics Press |
| Summary | This thesis examines the transformations in the representation of women’s roles in Central Asian women’s magazines during the Perestroika years. The thesis is primarily based on a case study of the Uzbek language periodical Saodat and the Kyrgyz language periodical Kyrgyzstan Ayaldary, as well as other national and Moscow-based socio-political newspapers published at the time. Discourse analysis is used to investigate discursive practices influenced by social norms, cultural practices, and historical context in depicting women in terms of labor and nation. The study's main conclusion is that images of successful agricultural worker-women balancing labor and motherhood in early Perestroika (1985-1989) were replaced by late Perestroika (1990-1991) images of women as primarily mothers, centering their lives around family duties, disassociating labor from the state, and trapped in exploitative working conditions. |
| Supervisor | Shaw, Charles; de Haan, Francisca |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/ataeva_gulrano.pdf |
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