Publication details
Dospívání v poddanském městě v době osvícenských reforem
| Title in English | The Lives of Young People in a Moravian Town in the Eighteenth Century |
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | This paper examines lives of young people in the town of Slavkov in the second half of the eighteenth century. The research is based on the data from registers of inhabitants. These documents contain information about the place where children and their parents stayed and what they did every year. The analysis of biographies of the young people showed that the gender was an important factor which influenced the future of the children. The girls usually stayed in their parents’ house until they got married. They rarely started to work and left the town. In contrast, lives of the boys were more varied. They learned crafts, left the town to gain some experience, studied or were enlisted in the army. The individual stories took place at the time of the enlightened reforms in the eighteenth century. The aim of this presentation is to point up the gender differences in access to work and education. As far as the methodology is concerned, the relations between gender history and feminist anthropology will play a part. Various ways of cooperation between history and anthropology will be discussed. |