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State socialist women's organizations within Yugoslav factories: a case study of local activism in the Duga Resa cotton mill
Full text linkState socialist women's organizations were particularly active in Yugoslav industrial towns with a significant female workforce, as in the case of the Croatian mill town of Duga Resa. By exploring the local activities of the Conference for the Social Activity of Women (KDAZ), this article contributes to historiographical debates regarding state socialist women's organizations and women's agency as well as to the recent revival of interest in the social history of the post-Yugoslav region. An analysis of reflexive and representative archival sources, namely minutes of party and municipal meetings as well as official publications, shows that working women's double burden was not silenced but was frequently discussed by socialist authorities, women's organizations and female workers themselves. Through the Yugoslav politics of self-management, local KDAZ activists often lobbied for better working and welfare rights, especially the provision of housing and childcare facilities for working mothers. While KDAZ activists' agency was shaped by dominant social norms, the possibilities for voicing open criticism in socialist Yugoslavia meant that a certain degree of bottom-up initiative was possible. The archives of municipal and socio-political organizations, therefore, are of fundamental importance in understanding working women's position at the intersection of gender and labour history
Post-socialist deindustrialisation and its gendered structure of feeling: the devaluation of women’s work in the Croatian garment industry
Full text linkThis paper examines the devaluation of women's industrial work during the transition from market socialism to capitalism in Croatia. On the basis of oral history interviews with former workers from the Arena knitwear factory in Pula, it explores the gendered structure of feeling created by socialist industrialisation, and its transformations during post-socialist deindustrialisation. In socialist Yugoslavia, female industrial workers participated in the discourses and practices of workers' self-management. Despite their hard work and their low wages, most workers fondly remember the factory as a space of socialisation, solidarity and empowerment. The factory functioned as a redistributive centre for accessing welfare rights. After post-socialist transition, workers experienced worsening social rights, precarity and exploitation as a result of deindustrialisation, privatisation and the neo-liberal withdrawal of the welfare state. Workers' nostalgic narratives about their work experiences during socialism are mobilised to reclaim the dignity and value of work in post-socialist times
Transnational Feminist Interventions on Gender-Based Violence During the Bosnian War: Representational Dilemmas in Activism, Advocacy, and Art
No full textDuring the Bosnian War (1992–1995), mass rapes were used as an instrument of ethnic cleansing and received extensive local and transnational media coverage. The paper examines transnational feminist art interventions that strive to give voice to rape survivors and to contest the dominant local and international media representations of women victims of violence, namely Šejla Kamerić’s poster and art installation Bosnian Girl, Eve Ensler’s play Necessary Targets, and Jasmila Žbanić’s fiction films Grbavica and For Those Who Can Tell No Tales. These interventions touch upon a variety of ethical issues, such as the power imbalances between Western and local actors, the risk of reproducing discursive victimization and ethnic essentialism, and the contested interpretations of rape as an instrument of genocide or as an expression of universal patriarchy
How perceived object dimension influences prehension
No full textA kinematic study assessed the effects of the perceived dimensions of an object upon the patterning of a prehension movement involving that object. If an apple was perceived as two-dimensional, subjects utilized a large precision grip between the index finger and thumb. If the apple was perceived as three-dimensional, whole hand prehension involving all the digits was utilized. A visual perturbation from perceived two-dimensional to three-dimensional at movement onset resulted in a transition from the 2D precision grip pattern to the 3D whole hand prehension. These results suggest that visual mechanisms for interpreting the dimensions of an object directly influence motor selection pathways, and do not necessarily access a three-dimensional central nervous system representation of the object
Dopaminergic effects on the implicit processing ofdistracter objects in Parkinson’s disease
Full text linkThe aim of the present study was to assess the effects of dopaminergic medication on the
selection-for-action mechanisms in Parkinson’s disease (PD). PD subjects were tested after not having
taken medication for at least 12 h ("Off" state) and then retested 1-2 h after medication ("On" state). A
three-dimensional kinematic system (ELITE, BTS, Italy) was used to record reach-to-grasp
movements to a target object placed at a reaching distance of 30 cm. The target was presented alone or
in the presence of distracter objects, which could be of either the same size (compatible distracter) or a
different size (incompatible distracter). PD subjects in the Off state were significantly more affected
by the presence of the incompatible distracter than in the On state. These results indicate that
dopaminergic medication is of benefit in reducing interference effects when distracter objects evoke
motor programs that differ from the motor program elicited by the target. Results are discussed in light
of the role played by the striatal and mesocortical dopaminergic systems for response selection in basal
ganglia disorders
Is covert visuospatial attention the neuromodulator for the selection for action process?
No full textAustralian Jn of Psycholog
Dissociation of covert and overt spatial attention during prehension movements: Selective interference effects
Full text linkIn four experiments, the influence of distracter objects on the temporal evolution of the reach-to-grasp movement toward a target object (an apple) was examined. Zn the first experiment, the distracter was another apple, which moved laterally behind the target and occasionally changed direction toward the target, thus becoming the to-be-grasped object. In the second and third experiments, the distracter was a stationary piece of fruit, which sometimes became the to-be-grasped object because of a change in illumination. The fourth experiment was a combination of the first two experiments. In all cases, selective interference effects on the transport and manipulation components were observed only when attention to the distracter was covert rather than overt. It is proposed that covert visuospatial attention selects information about distracting but potentially important stimuli, such that a registration of significance is accomplished without the need to process all available information
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