Воображая раскрепощение мусульманок советского Туркестана

Islamology. 2020. Т. 10. № 1. С. 83–104.

Мелентьев Д. В.

The agitation posters on Muslim women’s emancipation and Bolsheviks’
gender policy open up a di!erent perspective on the soft sociocultural reforms
in Soviet Turkestan. Visual agitation was a means of cultural transfer of
Europeanized and secular norms into the patriarchal public and private
space and a tool for recoding the indigenous peoples’ worldview. The paper
investigates visual agitation and analyzes the principles of functioning of
emancipation posters of Muslim women in a culturally sophisticated society.
Agitation posters are examined as instruments of modernizing women’s
living environment in cities, villages as well as in the steppe (of a nomadic
lifestyle). The paper partly raises the question of the potential limits of the
perception of indigenous women’s image. The theoretical researches of Soviet
art critics are used for this analysis. There is an attempt made to analyze the
visual propaganda in the cultural and psychological contexts as well as in
terms of the artistic features of the images. The visual agitation is studied as
an essential component of emancipation, which played a significant role in
promoting the values of Soviet feminists in the first half of the 1920s.

Keywords: гендерные исследования, феминизм, Turkestan, Туркестан, Gender studies, Feminism

Publication based on the results of: Кросскультурные взаимодействия: мусульмане в России (2020)