Аннотация
This paper concerns the historiographical analysis of women’s everyday life in Kazakhstan from 1970 to the 1990s. The main focus is on how women’s daily life often remains outside the field of historical research. The primary goal of the work is to identify and analyze those aspects of women’s lives that do not find proper reflection in traditional historical narratives, highlighting the problem of underrepresentation of women’s experience in historical science. The research methodology is based on historiographical analysis, a comprehensive approach, and methods of gender history. Particular attention is paid to the critical analysis of the periodical press and memoirs, which allows for a comparison of official discourse with women’s real-life strategies. The scientific novelty lies in identifying a conceptual shift in national science at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, when women ceased to be viewed merely as objects of state care and became active subjects of history. Data on women’s entrepreneurship and daily life are introduced into scientific circulation as objects of historical study. As a result of the study, it is proved that the potential of the source base of the late 20th century allows for filling the “blank spots” of national history through the expansion of the anthropological approach. The work contributes to the understanding of cultural continuity and the evolution of the social status of women in modern Kazakhstani society.