Postavení žen v “řemenářské“ obci Metylovice

• Authors: Václav Machalička

Title variants

EN

The Position of women in the ‘belt makers’ village of Metylovice

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The belt making on mass scale in Metylovice considerably influenced lives of women in this village, especially in the first half of the 20th century. Belt making besides hard work, when they had to take part directly in the production, enabled women to gain certain independence and financial capital. In this way, several different strata of women in leather manufacturing characterized by distinctive professionally social phenomena were created. It is possible to divide Metylovice women engaged in belt making into several groups: a worker carrying out individual operations of technological process of making whips and other assortment, petty tradesman’s wife taking part directly in production and distribution, wife of a wealthier belt maker who belonged to the highest social class in the village, a businesswoman with her own production means. Also this distinguished Metylovice from surrounding villages in the first half of the 20th century.

Keywords

EN

leather manufacturing; belt making; position of women

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Czech Ethnological Society
• Journal: Národopisný věstník
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 24_(66)
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 55-63
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Václav Machalička

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