Domestic service connects the problems of specific form of wage work with the problems of household work. The social status of the servants was very low, due to the character of work, minimal education and qualification. The female domestic servant carried out specific range of tasks, partly for pay, partly for room and board. Domestic service was perceived as transitional stage in the life of woman. Another characteristic feature of the domestic service was great horizontal mobility, taht is, frequent fluctuation with respect to employment., Naďa Machková Prajzová., and Obsahuje bibliografii
In the year 1909 was established in Prague Minority Museum as a mutually-supportive institution. Its goal was to pay attention to demographic problems, expecially the distribution of Czech minorities in nationally mexed (Czech-German) regions in the borderlands, as well as collection of documents on national, cultural and social situation. One of the concrete activities of the museum was to pursue guestionnaire surveys, on the basis of which was expected to enquire the situation of Czech minorities on Czech-German territories. The article shows how the questionnaires were processed and distributed. Given the fact that the archival collection "Minority Museum 1909-1920" in the National Archives in Prague contains only a torso of filled questionnaires, it can be speculated that in the period before the World War I it was not possible to realize this project., Andrej Sulitka., and Obsahuje bibliografii
The article is focused on the social-anthropological studies of kinship and gender with a special attention to the development of this field in the past two decades in the Czech Republic. The text brings an overview of the intellectual history of some crucial problems in kinship and gender studies within the framework of social anthropology and related disciplines. Furthermore, it answers the question to what extent and in which areas the theories, methods and topics of social-anthropological kinship and gender studies have found their place in the contemporary Czech Republic., Lenka J. Budilová., and Obsahuje odkazy pod čarou
The article dedicates to the results of prosopographic study realized on the example of three female conventual congregations for the second half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century. Specifically, the research aimed to ascertain the if the geographical spreading of the institute corresponded to the influx of new members of the congregations, as well as from which social strata the nuns came and at what age they entered the congregations., Dana Jakšičová., and Obsahuje bibliografii
Wedding announcements constitute a specific source for the study of social history. Their beginning can be dated, in the Czech Lands, to the first half of the 19th century. The present study focuses on the analysis of the engaged couples, their origin, social standing, nationality and religion. As a basis for the research served the collection of wedding announcements preserved in the Municipal Museum of Mnichovo Hradiště; specifically analyzed were announcements from the years 1897-1918., Lenka Procházková., and Obsahuje odkazy pod čarou
The present article focuses on the everyday life of married couples at the countryside in the „long" 19th century on the basis of the sources that arose at the Archiepiscopal Matrimonial Court in Prague shortly after the beginning of the 19th century. The case of Josef Houšek reveals the social and economic situation of the villagers and their in dealing with the highest ecclesiastical and state representatives. Besides, it renders possible a surprisingly close view of the everyday life of the married couple and their relatives. The husband and wife Houšek had to cope with the incapability of the wife Barbora to fulfil her „marital duty". This led to several attempts to annulate the marriage. However in the period between 1845 and 1858, for which the case was followed through the sources, these efforts were in vain. Besides, the whole case reveals the increasing importance of the medical science and its impact even to the ordinary village inhabitants., Zuzana Čevelová., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
The present article aims to resume the present-day state of knowledge and the possibilities for future research of the problem of widows and widowhood in the village society of the Early Modern Era and the first half of the nineteenth century. The text focuses especially in sketching the fields of interest that arise out of the study of widowhood in connection with the discourse of the times, the legislation and the demographic development., Markéta Skořepová., and Obsahuje bibliografii