540 Slavic Review hostesses. They have embraced a decentered “plastic” sexuality. These enter- tainers wield their sexuality “without hang-ups” (bez kompleksov) (131) as a sign of their modernity, but also as a sort of intimate currency that facilitates their mobility. They seek to beneft from men’s fnancial expenditures, and make strategic use of the forms of power they embody by presenting them- selves as sexually “liberated,” relatively well educated, and phenotypically “white” in urban centers where these qualities are in demand. These dancers pursue their own aspirations, realizing a cherished dream of mobility that they frequently see as a frst step to modern subjectivities, but nevertheless traveling distinct routes deeply rooted in home communities where their chil- dren are cared for by grandparents. The conditions of transnational mobility inhabited by these migrant women are forging new ways of connecting between parents and children, building on practices that were already in circulation prior to the collapse of socialism and the rise of an intensifed global economy. Bloch emphasizes the role of biological mothers as the “other mothers”—not primary caregiv- ers but still taking part in a transnational nurturing nexus in a diferent, or “other” way that involves channeling resources in the form of remittances without being physically present. A key technology of modernity, the mobile phone, has further facilitated and enhanced this type of family formation which Bloch convinces the reader is not just a desperate attempt to provide care for children. Instead it is a dynamic, historically-based practice that enables women to become long-term labor migrants and provide substantially for their households. Matza rounds of his powerful analysis by quoting James Laidlaw: “the freedom of the ethical subject, for Foucault, consists in the possibility of choos- ing the kind of self one wishes to be—choosing that, of course, takes place within constraints” (“For an Anthropology of Ethics and Freedom,” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 8(2): 324). The border guard who makes a choice to allow the tired child priority alongside the SUVs of the élite, and the nightclub hostess in Istanbul speaking to her daughter back in Moldova on Skype both share that freedom and those constraints. Dominic Martin MacMillan Center, Yale University Metropolitan Belgrade: Culture and Class in Interwar Yugoslavia. By Jovana Babović. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. ix, 259 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. $27.95, paper. doi: 10.1017/slr.2019.119 Jovana Babović has written an important contribution to our understanding of the development of Belgrade as a cultural center in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes in the 1920s and 30s. Her principal focus concerns the role of foreign popu- lar culture in Belgrade and its privileged position in relation to the activity of Serbian or Yugoslav entertainers. Her analysis, amply illustrated by reference to specifc cases of certain individuals and the clubs and kafane in which they performed, is contex- tualized in a broader discussion to demonstrate the appropriation of the means of