Fergana Valley in the late XIX th - early ХХth centuries: women and society

The article is devoted to the women's issue in the late XIX - early XX centuries, their role in the public life of the villages of the Fergana Valley. Raising this issue in Turkestan was one of the most important, but conflicting ones. Despite various disputes and opinions of advanced people of this period, the raising of this kind of problem was the result of progress among the population of cities, especially the villages of Turkestan.