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The Intersection of Gender, Ethnicity and Islam in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Nayereh Tohidi
Nayereh Tohidi*
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University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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How do I define Azerbaijani women's identity? This is very complicated, because we have been influenced by Russia, Iran, Turkey, the Caucasus and Islam … Every day we have to wear different masks and juggle multiple identities. You cannot find a single or typical Azeri female identity. You cannot generalize any type to the whole population of Azeri women since we vary so much.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , March 1997 , pp. 147 - 167
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Copyright © 1997 Association for the Study of Nationalities of Eastern Europe 

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