Azeri Women in Transition

First book length treatment of Muslim Soviet Women

Cross disciplinary - gender and women''s studies, anthropology, Central Asia and Caucasus

Suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate level

Offers a new dimension for specialists on gender relations in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, where previous work has mostly had a Russian perspective

For Middle East specialists, provides insights into a region closed to researchers and its non-soviet neighbours for much of the 20th century