Výhradně pro pány tvorstva?

• Authors: Karel Altman

Title variants

EN

Exclusively for Lords of Creation? (Women as clientele of inns in the Czech lands in the 19th and 20th centuries)

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Since the Middle Ages, inns served almost exclusively to men, women appeared there only exceptionally. This fact was given by the historical development, typical (not only) for the area of Central Europe. The position of women changed only during the industrial revolution, as they started to take part in the social process of common work, which created conditions for their emancipation. The process of female emancipation was also expressed in violation of male domains, especially all kinds of places of recreation. While in the 19th century women were allowed to enter an inn only exceptionally and exclusively in the company of their husbands, fathers or other male relatives, in the 20th century they started to appear here regularly. Women associated in clubs and societies and held their meetings in inns. Particularly female intellectuals and artists followed by other strata of women in twos or alone more and more often sought out suitable facilities, especially coffee houses.

Keywords

EN

inns; female staff; female emancipation; free time; prostitution; Czech lands in the 19th and 20th century

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Czech Ethnological Society
• Journal: Národopisný věstník
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 26_(68)
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 36-52
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Karel Altman

• Česká národopisná společnost, z. s., Národní třída 3, 117 20 Praha 1, Czech Republic