Drawing on semi-structured interviews, and an analysis of advertisements for menstrual hygiene products in socialist Slovenia and wider Yugoslavia, this article seeks to contribute to the scholarship ...on menstruation. There are tensions in the public language of the socialist system, how women perceive menstruation and the messages conveyed through these advertisements. The choices made by women in relation to their views of these products assist in evaluating the emancipatory potential they are imagined to have, as well as the shame still widely associated with menstruation itself.
This article outlines how citizens of socialist Slovenia spent their leisure time, where and when they went on holidays, and what role consumption played during those times. It is based on the ...argument that tourism as a form of modern leisure is associated with consumption, wherefore consumerism and tourism are interconnected phenomena. While also arguing that labour and leisure are entwined, the article studies the mutually constructive relationship between work and leisure through the perspective of holidays and the consumption of goods and services in the form of trade-union tourism and cross-border shopping. As regards the tourism sector development process, this article also fills a gap in our understanding of the intersection between domestic and commercial tourism. This contribution to the social history of tourism in Yugoslav socialism is based on both archival sources and oral history, with semi-structured interviews conducted with interlocutors.
This article explores how women interpreted everyday clothing practices and decoration of their body and how they positioned themselves in different social milieus during the period of socialist ...Slovenia (1945-1991). The new socialist middle class in Slovenia and Yugoslavia was defined by participation in a lifestyle, created and expressed through consumption and behaviors that turned everyday life into a symbolic display of taste and cultural distinction. This article shows the ways women engaged in self-expression and negotiated dressing up. It analyzes the self-emancipation of women as they challenged the boundaries of social hierarchies on the basis of selftransformations, pointing out the active role that women had in their self-positioning in social categories. KEYWORDS: clothing habitus, gender, rural-urban, self-positioning, social distinction
Stiletto Socialism Sitar, Polona
Aspasia (New York, N.Y.),
03/2020, Volume:
14, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
This article explores how women interpreted everyday clothing practices and decoration of their body and how they positioned themselves in different social milieus during the period of socialist ...Slovenia (1945–1991). The new socialist middle class in Slovenia and Yugoslavia was defined by participation in a lifestyle, created and expressed through consumption and behaviors that turned everyday life into a symbolic display of taste and cultural distinction. This article shows the ways women engaged in self-expression and negotiated dressing up. It analyzes the self-emancipation of women as they challenged the boundaries of social hierarchies on the basis of self-transformations, pointing out the active role that women had in their self-positioning in social categories.
The book contributes new insights to the research in the field of anthropology of (post)socialism, culture of consumption, gender and memory. It is based on the testimony of interlocutors who offer ...an insight into the “structure of the feeling” of the socialist era through the practice of consumption, from which on the one hand the complex economic and political dynamics and diverse disciplinary regimes are being reflected and the understanding of power, resistance and emancipation on the other. Author establishes critical distance towards the approach, which discusses socialism as a totalitarianism and shows that socialist policies were not simply dictated from above, but negotiated between the state and its citizens. The female consumer in socialism did not only respond to social barriers and obstacles of history, but she also actively co-created social time. By studying how consumers interpreted and created mutual connections between material objects, moral reputation and (self)respect, the book also shows certain specific elements of Slovenian and Yugoslav development of the European countries after the Second World War.
This article discusses political implications of the fact that technological development and consumption in socialism are nowadays shown as a failed project of the socialist production. This ...generates a view that the Yugoslav socialism was never a part of modernity. The paper also argues that, unlike in the case of non-mechanical hand washing, the washing machine as a new piece of technology enabled the participation of men in doing laundry for the first time because of the stereotypical relationship between men and technology. The article also discusses ambiguities in understanding, using and relocating the time saved by using a washing machine (which promised the reduction of time) used for housework.
This article discusses political implications of the fact that technological development and consumption in socialism are nowdays shown as a failed project of the socialist production. This generates ...a view that the Yugoslav socialism was never a part modernitiy.
Pričujoči članek temelji na analizi romantičnega resničnostnega šova ljube- zen na seniku. čeprav se zdijo klasični miti o romantični ljubezni osrednjega pomena, avtorica podari prednost ...razumevanju tega, s kakšnimi diskurzi šov uprizarja spol in razred, na podlagi česar poskuša razumeti, s kakšnimi diskurzi se v šovu ljubezen na seniku konstruira identiteta ženske spodnjega družbenega razreda. Takšni diskurzi so pomembni, ker zgodbe, ki jih lahko gledalci spremljajo v okviru resničnostnega šova, niso več samo del zasebne domene, ampak postanejo del diskurza, ki oblikuje odločitve o javni politiki in demokratični civilni družbi. Avtorica išče vzroke za visoko gledanost šova tudi v takratni slovenski družbeni klimi, na katero je imel velik vpliv ideološki vzpon tradicionalne in konservativne desnice.
This article is based on an analysis of the romantic reality show Love in the hayloft. Although it seems as if classical myths of romantic love carry the central meaning, the author's primary focus ...is on understanding what kind of discourses the show uses to depict gender and class. Based on this, the author tries to offer an explanation of how the reality show Love in the hayloft constructs the identity of women from a lower social class. Such discourses are important because the stories that can be seen in the reality show are no longer just a part of the private domain, but have become a part of the discourse forming decisions about public policy and democratic civil society. The causes of the show's high ratings lie in the Slovenian social climate, which during the broadcasting of the show was strongly under the influence of the ideological rise of a conservative and traditional right-wing political party. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
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