Who is Kazakh Woman, and Who Gets to Decide?

The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. There is a particular confidence with which societies talk about women, especially other people’s women. Labels come easily: traditional, obedient, oppressed, resilient. Central Asian women, and Kazakh women in particular, have long lived under the weight of these borrowed descriptions. But the more I spoke with researchers while working on a special report for The… The post Who is Kazakh Woman, and Who Gets ...

By Fatima Kemelova