Kružok

Presenter: Emma Larson, G2,Department of History
Discussant: Evan Miller, G3, Department of History
Mediating Medicine: Kazakh Women’s Writings and Languages of Health Reform in Early Soviet Kazakhstan

This paper considers the way that Kazakh women working within Soviet institutions wrote about and participated in public-health reform in early Soviet Kazakhstan. Through a close reading of Kazakh-language women's journals and pre- and postnatal advice books, it argues that these women used the Soviet Union’s attention to women's and children's health in Central Asia to articulate a language of communal well-being rooted in pre-revolutionary Kazakh reformism, Islamic conceptions of cleanliness, vernacular turns of phrase, nomadism, and women’s embodied and domestic knowledge.

Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies | View More Events
Co-hosted with: Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (OWNER), Slavic Languages & Literatures