THE IMAGE OF WOMEN AND SOCIETY'S ATTITUDES IN ABDULLA QAHHOR'S PROSE: A SOCIO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS BASED ON SINCHALAK AND MAYIZ YEMAGAN XOTIN
Keywords:
Key words: Abdulla Qahhor, image of women, gender norms, human capital, social capital, information asymmetry, labor-force participation, socio-economic analysis.Abstract
Annotation: This article examines the image of women and the evolution of
society’s attitudes toward them in the prose of Abdulla Qahhor, focusing on two
contrasting female characters: the secluded wife in the short story “Mayiz Yemagan
Xotin” (“The Wife Who Did Not Eat Raisins”) and the young factory worker Saodat
in the novella “Sinchalak.” While the first character is confined to the domestic sphere
and evaluated solely on the basis of outward piety and conformity, the second enters
the productive economy and is evaluated on the basis of competence, vigilance and
integrity. The article argues that these two images correspond to two distinct stages in
the socio-economic position of women — exclusion from, and inclusion in, public
economic life — and interprets the social tension surrounding each character through
concepts familiar from economics and social science, including human capital, social
capital, information asymmetry and informal institutions. The analysis suggests that
Qahhor’s depiction of women’s social position retains direct relevance to
contemporary discussions of female labor-force participation and gender norms in
Uzbekistan.
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