A Békés Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 20. - Száz éve alakult a Békéscsabai Múzeum-Egyesület (Békéscsaba, 1999)
B. Szűcs Irén: Main characteristic features of love-life of the peasants in Békés in the first half ot the 20th century
Baligáné Szűcs Irén Uő. - 1987. Vallomások a paraszti szerelmi életről. In: Hoppal M.-Szepes E. (szerk.) 183-218. Uő. - 1988. Hol a világ közepe ? Parasztvallomások a szerelemről Kecskemét. Uő. - 1995. A házasságon kívüli kapcsolatból származó gyermekek helyzete a parasztközösségekben. In: Gyermekvilág a régi magyar falun. Szerk.: T. Bereczki Ibolya. Szolnok 171-187. Varga 1996. Varga Gyula - 1996. Az anyakönyvek mint a társadalomnéprajz forrásai. In: A társadalomnéprajzi vizsgálatok eredményei és lehetőségei az Alföldön. Szerk.: Szilágyi Miklós - Szűcs Judit. Csongrád. 51-71. Vígh 1980. Vígh Károly (szerk.) - 1980. Asszonyok és férfiak tüköré. Tanúvallomások a XVII. századból. Bp. Main characteristic features of love-life of the peasants in Békés in the first half of the 20 th century - B. Szűcs Irén Résumé The resourchers' attention turned strongly only the last two-three decades to examination of love-life of the peasants and it became clearer, that also by the examination of this topic the unity and completeness of life must be taken into consideration. The conventions always determined the viewpoints of partner selection, so in the first decade of the 20th century the financial position, religion, residence, profession, age, marital status of the family and the future wife or husband and aesthetical and moral motives as well, were important. The love wasn't belong by all means to marriage. The collective work and the leisure activities, what changed, modernized more and more since 1920-30s years, provided frame to get acquainted with each other to select partner. Girls were brougt up under stringent control of parents, they had hardly opportunity to obtain proper biological knowledges, sexual experiences before their marriage. For them the married life, the process of childbirth had a lot of surprises in store, while the lads who got over military service became some well up in the area of sexuallife in brothels or by gay women. Women were often at the mercy both in marriage life and in the area of economic, sincere emotion connected long-lasting only a few people. Although the peasants consider their own love - sexual life being of no central importance, nevertheless the folkculture is inspired with eroticism from folklore texts through dramatic and other convention to standards of moral and behaviour determining the practice of everyday life, so research of this topic leads nearer by all means to familiarize ourselfs with and understanding deeper the view of life of peasant. (Translated by Schaferné Веке Katalin) 166
