Discussion of the Issue of Women’s Place and Role in Society in Jadid Press and Works
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17605/cajssh.v7i2.1320Keywords:
Jadidism, Turkestan, women’s role, women’s education, press, social reformAbstract
. This article analyzes women and women their place and role in society in the literature of the Jadid movement in Turkestan at the beginning of the XXth century. Starting with identifying Jadidism as a reformist intellectual movement that sought social change by means of literate practices such as the press and literature and the efforts to educate women and engage them into society, Although the literary history of Jadidism has generated increasing academic curiosity, we still do not have a systematic study of media through which women’s questions were treated during this period. In response, the research uses historical and textual analysis of qualitative primary sources, including newspapers and journals, and other literary works of key Jadid figures, such as Mahmudxo‘ja Behbudiy, Abdulla Avloniy, and Abdulhamid Cho‘lpon, and relevant historiographical literature.
The results indicate that the Jadid thinkers persuasively and repetitively identified women literacy, moral education and social activities with necessity of national advancement and cultural revival. Not just a critique of the ills of tradition and social stagnation but more so, a blueprint to initiate tangible change, in the forms of new-method schools and the spread of notions via periodicals, characterises their writing. And the findings show that the women discourse was integral in the Jadid reform ideology rather than ancillary to it, as a primary engine of social modernization.
Such reformist narratives of gender, the study suggests, were archetypes, reconstructing the politics of gender and education in insightfully influential ways even in the following two decades in the region. It emphasizes the role of mind and media in reforming the mindset of society. A comparative dimension with other Muslim reform movements would be equally relevant, and future research should consider the long-term legacy of Jadid ideas on women's contemporary situation in Central Asia.
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