Crafting the Modern Woman in Azerbaijan: Muslim Women, the State, and Modernity, 1900–1939
Journal: UWSpace (University of Waterloo)
Year: 2020

This study examines the little-known history of cultural transformation initiated by Azerbaijani reformers between the 1850s and 1930s. Relying on a unique body of sources, which include handwritten manuscripts, literary works, unpublished memoirs, periodicals, correspondence, and political parties’ records, the research explores the new cultural settings that emerged after the incorporation of Azerbaijan into the Russian empire. New means of communication and new types of sociability, in a glob