“Women’s Issue” in Tatar Culture of the Early Xx Century (Historical and Biographical Analysis)

The problem of women’s emancipation is one of the key issues of Tatar culture at the beginning of the XX century. The question was constantly discussed on the pages of the press. The main authors were men. But how did their public views correlate with their everyday experiences? The article analyzes the private life of Tatar cultural figures of the early XX century (Rizaetdin Fakhretdin, Fatih Karimi, Hadi Atlasi, Fazil Tuikin) in the context of the “women’s issue”: the role of mothers in their development, family relationships, influence on sisters, features of raising daughters, etc. The research is based on diverse sources, including materials of personal origin – letters and memories. The author comes to the conclusion that there are two trends in the attitudes of these figures: the first – the education of a Tatar woman was considered a necessity for family life and child rearing; the second – female emancipation and development were considered an important condition for a woman’s independence in everyday life. Both directions were the result of the social experience of the authors

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