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Marriage, divorce, access to property during and after marriage, all this was structured over the centuries by ecclesiastical and civil provisions. Law thus had a very direct influence on personal life. The nineteenth century in particular was characterized by increasing legal unification, but particular rights continued to exist in larger territorial contexts. This legal heterogeneity as well as migration between different jurisdictional spaces could open up new possibilities to act. Conversely, different affiliations in regard to confession or ethnicity could pose great challenges for couples willing to marry. The aim of this issue is to ask at the interfaces between different legal logics about the spheres of action of men and women and the associated gender norms.

Der Titel kann ab Januar 2013 über die Südost Verlags Service GmbH, Waldkirchen, bezogen werden. Die Wissenschaften von der „Realität“ im sozialistischen Regime Der Alltag in kommunistischen Regimen galt lange als ein gut gehütetes Geheimnis. Die Alltagsgeschichte ist unterdessen in den Blick der Forschung geraten, nicht aber die Wissenschaften, die sich mit „realem Leben“ beschäftigen: Ethnologie und Soziologie. Everyday life was once considered to be one of the best hidden secrets of communist regimes. Despite the recent surge in the history of everyday life under state socialism, there is still little research on the development of those disciplines which analysed and described „real life“ from within communist Eastern Europe. The present volume seeks to fill this gap. In contributions which examine the history of ethnography and sociology under state socialism, it asks which scholarly self-descriptions socialist societies produced. The authors of the volume discuss the complex relationship between the party-state and academic ethnography and sociology. They analyse the impact of ideology and politics on both disciplines and trace the development of their main research paradigms. While describing the limitations of ethnography and sociology, which were mainly due to political constraints, the authors also highlight the achievements of both disciplines and show how their research findings reveal a significant gap between ideology and „reality“. These findings offer a valuable basis for a critical historical approach in current research on everyday life under state socialism.