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A reply to Jan Keller (2007), Jaroslaw Kilias (2006), & Johann Arnason (2007) as critical reviewers of Machonin's Ceska spolecnost a sociologicke poznani. Problemy spolecenske transformace a modernizace od poloviny sedesatych let 20. stoleti do soucasnosti ([The Czech Society and Sociological Knowledge. Problems of Social Transformation and Modernization from the Mid 1960s to the Present] Prague: ISV, 2005). Keller's critique is found to be fed by his personal, 'hyperskeptical' & overly pessimistic, view of modernization. Kilias misreads the book in the context of his own theoretical-methodological conceptions. Arnason's criticism is discussed in more detail, addressing the following issues: (1) the variety & diversity of epistemological approaches in sociological research, (2) the liberal thought in classical Marxism & the notions of social liberalism & democratic socialism, (3) the theory of multiple modernities, & (4) the concept & term 'state socialism' & the question whether state socialism, as practiced in the Soviet bloc countries, qualifies as a special type of modernity.

The article investigates the practice of female marriages in 19th century Great Britain and United States and argues that female marriages provided model for more progressive forms of the legal marriage between men and women. Unlike homosexuality in the 20th century, the same-sex relationships between women in the 19th century often enjoyed social recognition and some women in female marriages occupied prominent social positions. Because they were considered to rest on contract, female marriages served as inspiration for the contractual view of marriage advocated by many supporters of the Victorian marriage reform. The contribution of women in female couples to the success of the marriage reform was further underlined by their belonging to influential social networks. The author also argues that while the structuralist anthropology of mid-20th century, represented through the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss, had limited understanding of homosexuality as a socially legitimate phenomenon, the Victorian anthropology of the second half of the 19th century was relatively more open regarding the same-sex relationships. It is contended that authors as diverse as Henry Maine, Johann Bachofen, or Frederick Engels provided impulses in their work both for a positive evaluation of the same-sex relationships and for a more egalitarian understanding of marriage.

Franckfurt am Mayn ; [6] k., CCCXCIV [i.e. CCCXCIII], [1] s., [1] k, [4] k., CVII, [1 cz.] s. ; 2° ; S. tyt. czarno-czerwona z datą: M. D C I V. ; Dedykacje: 1. Den Hochgebornen [.] Landherren, auch der Ritterschafft vnd Ständen deß Königreichs zu Beheim [.] den 13. Martij, im Jar 1604. / Johann Spieß [.] Buchtrucker zu Franckfurt; 2. Dem [.] Herrn Maximiliano, Erwehlten Römischen Käyser [.] Sonnabendt nach Mariae Himmelfarht, Anno [.] im vier vnd sechtzigsten / Wolff von Wtzesowitz, Oberster Landtschreiber im Königreich Beheim. ; W nagł. pierwszej dedykacji drzewor. kartusz herbowy z czeskim lwem ; Liczne pomyłki w paginacji, m.in. k. CCCXCIII oznaczona CCCXCIV ; Dzieło współwydane z własną k. tyt. i paginacją: Beheimische Chronica, Das ist: Ordentliche vnd gantz nützliche jedoch kurtze Beschreibung, aller vnd jeder deß weitberühmbten Königreichs Beheimen, Fürsten, Hertzogen vnd Königen, jrer Ankunfft, Geschlecht, Leben vnd Regierung, Schlachten, Siege vnd Victorien [.] Von Hertzog Cechio [.] biß auff [.] Herrn Rudolffen, den Andern, Römischen Keyser [.] vollnführet : Deßgleichen auch eygentliche Verzeichnuß, aller vnd jeder Königlicher, Herren, vnd gemeiner Stätten, Schlösser, Vestungen, Märckte vnd Dörffer: Auch deß Ertzbischoffthumbs, der Bischoffthummen, Klöster, Pfarrkirchen, vnd OrdensStifften, wie auch Bergkwercken, vnnd Wasserflüssen gemeldtes Königreichs / Alles auß bewährten warhafftigen Historien zusammen getragen, vnnd kürtzlich beschrieben: Durch Georgivm Beatvm [.]. ; Fragm. tekstu w jęz. czes. ; Proweniencja: Jerzy Rudolf (książę legnicki ; 1595-1653) ; Proweniencja: Biblioteka księcia Jerzego Rudolfa (Legnica)