The Impact of the Alash Movement on Women and Its Transnational Influence on Northern Xinjiang

• In Event: Between Transition and Memory: Social Change in Kazakh Society across Borders from the Early 20th Century to the Present

Abstract

This paper examines the role of intellectuals in the Alash movement and its impact on female issues in Northern Xinjiang. Emerging during a period of societal transition, the movement sought to reform and modernize Kazakh society in the early 20th century. It focuses on the movement's contributions to gender and education reform in the Kazakh steppe and the transnational spread of these ideas to Northern Xinjiang in the 1920s-1930s.

Author

• Aigerim Seken, UC Santa Barbara