Preface and Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; List of Music Examples; List of Audio and Video Examples on CD; List of Photographs; List of Figures; Introduction; Chapter One Gender Performance in Southeastern Serbia; Chapter Two Village Gatherings: The Politics of Representation; Chapter Three Repertoire; Chapter Four Singing Exclusion; Concluding Remarks; References; Appendix One List of Villages and Interlocutors; Appendix Two The Constitution of the Competition of Serbian Villages; Appendix Three Villages -- Winners at Republic Level
Summary
Ana Hofman examines the negotiation of the gender performances in Serbian rural areas as a result of the socialist gender policy and creation of the new "femininity" in the public sphere. She focuses on the stage performances of female amateur groups at the Village Gatherings, state-sponsored events held from the 1970s through the mid-1990s in the southeastern Serbian region of Niško Polje. Offering a multifaceted picture of the personal experiences of the socialist ideology of gender equality, Staging Socialist Femininity investigates the complex relationships between personal, interpersonal
