Women’S Lives And Livelihoods In Post-Soviet Uzbekistan: Ceremonies Of Empowerment And Peacebuilding

Women's Lives and Livelihoods in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan examines women's livelihood activities in response to land tenure changes in post-Soviet Uzbekistan. Zulfiya Tursunova shows how women's multi-dimensional empowerment is achieved by accessing natural resources and markets central in maintaining the well-being of people, joining women's saving rotating networks to diminish economic dependency on men and state micro-loan bank systems, and participating in healing rituals to address socio-economic issues and strive for social justice, knowledge, and community development.

• | Author: Zulfiya Tursunova
• | Publisher: Lexington Books
• | Publication Date: Jun 05, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 248 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0739179772
• | ISBN-13: 9780739179772