Table of Contents: Gesture, gender, nation :

Main Author:	Doi, Mary Masayo.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2002.
Subjects:	Dance > Social aspects > Uzbekistan. Women > Social conditions. > Uzbekistan SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture. Dance > Social aspects. Social conditions Women > Social conditions. Dans. Sociale verandering. Vrouwen. Uzbekistan > Social conditions > 20th century. Uzbekistan.

Table of Contents:

Preliminaries; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Contents; Introduction; 1 Gender Kinship and Nationalism; 2 Taboo Breakers The Early Soviet Years 1924 1942; 3 The War Years: "We Made Dance a Beautiful Diamond" circa 1943 1953; 4 From Genealogical to Generic circa 1954 1990; 5 Independence 1991 1994; Conclusion It Is We Who Own Uzbekistan Now; Further Reading; References; Index.