ISBN:
9789004461390
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (288 pages)
Series Statement:
Inner Asia Book Ser.
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Keywords:
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Abstract:
Gender, Activism, and International Development Intervention in Kyrgyzstan draws on feminist critiques and ethnographic data to interrogate how development has been implemented in Kyrgyzstan since 1991.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1 A Note on Central Asian Women -- 2 Methodology -- 3 Outline -- Chapter 2 Gender and Development in Soviet Kyrgyzstan -- 1 Women in Pre-Soviet Central Asia -- 1.1 Women Warriors -- 2 The Soviet Development Project in Central Asia -- 2.1 Bolshevism and the 'Woman Question' -- 2.1.1 Legislative Reform -- 2.1.2 Hujum -- 2.1.3 The Zhenotdel -- 2.2 The Stalinist Period -- 2.2.1 The Woman Question Is Solved -- 2.2.2 Entry into Education and the Paid Labour Force -- 3 Gender Equality in the Soviet Union Post-Stalin -- 3.1 The Soviet Social Contract -- 3.2 Worker-Mothers -- 3.3 Those Who Did Not Fit -- 3.3.1 Disability in the USSR -- 3.3.2 'There Was No Sex in the Soviet Union' -- 4 Gender Equality and the Gendered Social Contract in the Kirgiz SSR -- 4.1 Education -- 4.2 Employment -- 4.3 Women in Political Life -- 4.4 The Private Sphere -- 5 The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Transition Period -- 5.1 The Transition to a Market Economy -- 5.1.1 Society in Flux -- 5.1.2 Unemployment and the Rolling Back of the State -- 5.1.3 New Possibilities and Opportunities -- 5.2 The Gender Backlash? -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Development and Civil Society in Kyrgyzstan -- 1 Theories of Citizenship -- 1.1 Liberal Citizenship -- 1.2 Citizenship in State Socialist Regimes -- 1.3 Neoliberal Citizenship -- 2 Theoretical Approaches to Civil Society -- 3 Civil Society and Citizenship in Development -- 3.1 Operationalising Civil Society in Development -- 3.2 Active Citizens in Development -- 3.2.1 Operationalising Active Citizenship -- 4 Civil Society and Development in Kyrgyzstan -- 4.1 Accounts of Civil Society in Central Asia -- 4.2 Civil Society in the Soviet Period -- 4.3 The Perestroika and Glasnost' Period -- 4.4 Donor-Driven Civil Society.
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