This paper analyzes attitudes of women enrolled in secular and religious universities in the
capital cities of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan toward family life and the role of Islam in the …

This article examines how the historical interaction between colonizer and colonized
influenced gender inequality in the Central Asian state of Uzbekistan. The study …

How do marriages fare during times of dramatic social, political and economic transition?
Transitional societies offer a unique context for studying marital instability as they are often …

This chapter draws on a conceptual framework from gender studies and critical security
studies, especially the meaning of security and the concept of human security, in order to …

This essay documents the author's work with Kazakhstani English-language students to
devise and stage a play based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The cross-cultural …

This article advances a straightforward argument: a complete analysis of land reform
processes in Central Asia needs to account for gender dynamics. More explicitly, it argues …

The objects of this case study on the Russian Federation are fivefold: first, to locate
contemporary patterns of migration within, from, and to the former Soviet space, focusing …

During Soviet rule, the state all but imposed atheism on the primarily Islamic people of
Kyrgyzstan and limited the tradition of polygyny—a form of polygamy in which one man has …

Genderfragen stehen im Fokus des Interesses auch in der post-sowjetischen
aserbaidschanischen Gesellschaft. Sicherlich setzt sich dabei nicht eine ganze Gesellschaft …

This chapter explores the institutional processes addressing child marriage in contemporary
Kyrgyzstan with the focus on the operation of state-sponsored institutions of secondary …