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Explores gender relations in Muslim societies, using post-Soviet Tajikistan as a central case-study.

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'I am deeply impressed. This is a solid, original ethnography from a little studied part of the world' -- Thomas Eriksen
'Colette is an amazing person and I cannot imagine how she did the work she reports on' -- Professor Janet Momsen, Dept of Human & Community Development, Uni of California

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Dramatis Personae
Technical Information and Terminology
Glossary
Introduction: The Research Setting and Methodology
1. Conceptual Background
2. The Bolsheviks Attack but the Tajiks Resist
3. Community Control
4. Inter-Generational Family Control
5. The Individual Unmasked
6. The Couple Relationship: Love, Sex and Marriage
7. Control and Subversion
Bibliography

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      Publisher: Pluto Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/03/2004
      ISBN13: 9780745321677, 978-0745321677
      ISBN10: 0745321674

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores gender relations in Muslim societies, using post-Soviet Tajikistan as a central case-study.

      Trade Review
      'I am deeply impressed. This is a solid, original ethnography from a little studied part of the world' -- Thomas Eriksen
      'Colette is an amazing person and I cannot imagine how she did the work she reports on' -- Professor Janet Momsen, Dept of Human & Community Development, Uni of California

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements
      Dramatis Personae
      Technical Information and Terminology
      Glossary
      Introduction: The Research Setting and Methodology
      1. Conceptual Background
      2. The Bolsheviks Attack but the Tajiks Resist
      3. Community Control
      4. Inter-Generational Family Control
      5. The Individual Unmasked
      6. The Couple Relationship: Love, Sex and Marriage
      7. Control and Subversion
      Bibliography

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