INTERNET RESOURCES ON WOMEN AND GENDER RELATIONS IN CENTRAL ASIA
Institutional
Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women
in Central Asia and the Caucasus. By
Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, RBEC/UNDP Regional Programme in Support to Gender in
Development
Revival of Traditions in Post-Soviet Central Asia. By Anara Tabyshalieva.
Globalization Modules: Learning Goals: Central Asia, Russia and the
Struggle Over Islam and Globalization. By Oidin Imamkhodjaeva
http://www.rit.edu/~global/glob-oidin-central-goals.html
Women in politics & Gender-based corruption in Central Asia
http://www.10iacc.org/download/t1-05.pdf
Central Asia is one of the unique regions in the world with the huge gap between highly educated women who actively participate in the socio-political life of their countries and illiterate women.
A presentation by Nuria Ismagilova.
Polygamy in Central Asia. By WLUML.
http://home.wlu.edu/~goluboffs/260/Uzbekistan_polyg.html
Anaemia in Central Asia: Demographic and health survey experience. By Almaz Sharmanov
http://www.unu.edu/unupress/food/V194e/ch04.htm
On Gender Relations and History. By Andre Gunder Frank. Excerpt from:THE CENTRALITY OF CENTRAL ASIA [Amsterdam: Free University Press 1992]
http://rrojasdatabank.info/agfrank/gender_relations.html
Transformations of Gender Relations in Central and Eastern Europe. By Sylke Viola Schnepf
http://www.vifu.de/new/students/schnepf/
Women Likely to
Suffer Most in Central Asia's Turmoil. By Justin Burke
WEnews contributor. Run Date: 09/30/01
Soviet domination meant Islamic religious zeal was suppressed in Central Asia, even as women advanced educationally and professionally under socialism. Religious revival has not been kind to women and military action is likely to hurt women most.
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/671/context/archive
Central Asia: Women Lead the Workforce.
http://www.eurasia.org/CaseStudies/Individual_Studies/08.03_CentralAsia_Women.pdf
Lost Children of Central Asia. IWPR.
The investigation was conducted by Ulugbek Babakulov, Freedom House officer in Bishkek; Natalia Domagalskaya, a freelance journalist in Bishkek; Elena Lyanskaya, a Freedom House volunteer in Tashkent; Alla Pyatibratova, a freelance journalist in Osh; Roman Sadanov, the pseudonym for a journalist in Astana; Asel Sagynbaeva, IWPR’s programme coordinator in Kyrgyzstan; Leila Saralaeva, a freelance journalist in Bishkek; and Nargis Zokirova, an IWPR contributor in Dushanbe.
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/rca/rca_200401_257_2_eng.txt
Women and Land in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. By Renee Giovarelli and Jennifer Duncan. Submitted to Women Farmers: Enhancing Rights and Productivity
www.zef.de/download/kw-women/giovarelli.pdf
Art, Women and Development in Central Asia: Geography , Nature , and
History. By Orozgan Mambetalieva, Chairman, Association of Women Artists
and Art Critics, Kyrgyzstan
http://condor.depaul.edu/~rrotenbe/aeer/v17n2/Mambetalieva.pdf
Muslim Feminism and Feminist Movement : Central Asia Edited by Abida Samiuddin and R. Khanam. Delhi, Global Vision Pub., 2002, viii, 416 p., $50. ISBN 81-87746-34-3.
https://www.vedamsbooks.com/no29294.htm
Central Asia:
girls face discrimination in schooling
Antoine Blua: 11/09/03
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/pp110903.shtml
International Conference"The Role of Women in Intercultural Dialogue in Central Asia". Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 11th-13th June 2003
http://www.unesco.kz/culture/conference/interculturaldialogue.htm
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Bibliography of Books and Articles on Central Asia & The Caucasus.
http://www.umt.edu/cap/biblio.htm
Women in Democratic Institutions in Kazakhstan. By Galiya Khassanova http://www.policy.hu/khassanova/cont_dem.html
Gender and Party Politics. By Galiya Khassanova http://www.policy.hu/khassanova/cont_dem.html
Managing Job and Family:How do Kazak Female Managers Cope? By Saulesh Esenova, Centre for International Management Studies, McGill University
http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/RESOURCES/CASPIAN/wom_p43.html
Kazakh Saukele (the female wedding headdress: through the millennia from the Sak to the Kazakhs)
http://www.kunstkamera.ru/exhibition/saukele/eng/fsau.htm
UZBEKISTAN
Traditional Stereotypes
and Women’s Problems in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan: A Survey of the Mass Media. By M. Tokhtakhodjaeva
(Published: January 2000)
http://www.wluml.org/english/pubsfulltxt.shtml?cmd[87]=i-87-a8dfbe46b15b50baf405e512e5f3c1ac&cmd[190]=i-190a8dfbe46b15b50baf405e512e5f3c1ac
As Islam Replaces Communism in Uzbekistan, Economy Stagnates, Men Remain “More Equal” Than Women. By Lucy Jones
http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/1099/9910033.html
Land for Women, Too: Islam, Communism, and Land Reform in Uzbekistan, 1925-28 By Marianne Kamp, Ph.D., Whitman College
http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/RESOURCES/CASPIAN/wom_p12.html
TAJIKISTAN
Women and Gender Relations in Tajikistan
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Country_Briefing_Papers/Women_in_Tajikistan/prelims.pdf
By Jane Falkingham. The publication reflects the transition and changing gender roles of Tajik women in public and private lives since 1991.
Women in Mind:
Educational Needs of Women in Central Asia-
General Recommendations and Strategies for Development. By Nuria R. Ismagilova,
Khujand, Tajikistan
http://www.mtnforum.org/resources/library/isman02a.htm
Women, Violence, and Tajikistan. By Martina Vandenberg
http://www.eurasianet.org/policy_forum/vand022001.shtml