Melanie A Medeiros

Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil

Black Women's Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores rural, working-class, black Brazilian women’s perceptions and experiences of courtship, marriage and divorce. In this book, women’s narratives of marriage dissolution demonstrate the ways in which changing gender roles and marriage expectations associated with modernization and globalization influence the intimate lives and the health and well being of women in Northeast Brazil.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 197mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780813588247
• ISBN-10: 0813588243
• Artikelnr.: 51380291

Autorenporträt

MELANIE A. MEDEIROS is an assistant professor in the department of anthropology at The State University of New York College at Geneseo. 

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
1     Brogodó, Bahia, Brazil 
2    Gender, Employment and Divorce
3    Telenovela Reception and the Rise of Modern Love and Companionate
Marriage 
4    Respect, Infidelity and Divorce
5    Marital Distress and Social Suffering
6    Matrifocal Kinship and Amor Verdadeiro
7    Conclusion
References
Index
Acknowledgments 
About the Author