Политики на социалистическата власт в България към жените мюсюлманки
The Policies of the Socialist Power in Bulgaria to the Muslim Women

Summary/Abstract: I have researched the group of Bulgarian speaking Muslims called Pomacs. The women of this group were considered as backward in their cultural, educational and everyday life development. Third traditional clothing, low education, strong religiosity, and the lack of modern social life contradicted to the communist atheist ideology and the proclaimed gender equality. I analyzed the policies and practices especially planned for them; the aims, methods, and instruments used by the communist power to modernize and assimilate them. I outlined different women’s life trajectories, modernization changes, resistance practices and the possible life choices to the Muslim women in the period of state socialism.

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