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Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil : Black Women's Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship / Melanie A. Medeiros.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (222 p.) : 1 tableContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813588247
  • 9780813588261
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.81089/9608142 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ594.15.B34
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 1. BROGODÓ, BAHIA, BRAZIL -- 2. GENDER, EMPLOYMENT, AND DIVORCE -- 3. TELENOVELA RECEPTION AND THE RISE OF ROMANTIC LOVE AND COMPANIONATE MARRIAGE -- 4. RESPECT, INFIDELITY, AND DIVORCE -- 5. MARITAL DISTRESS AND SOCIAL SUFFERING -- 6. MATRIFOCAL KINSHIP AND AMOR VERDADEIRO -- 7. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
Summary: Using an intersectional approach, Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil 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. Melanie A. Medeiros explores the women's rich stories of desire, love, respect, suffering, strength, and transformation.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 1. BROGODÓ, BAHIA, BRAZIL -- 2. GENDER, EMPLOYMENT, AND DIVORCE -- 3. TELENOVELA RECEPTION AND THE RISE OF ROMANTIC LOVE AND COMPANIONATE MARRIAGE -- 4. RESPECT, INFIDELITY, AND DIVORCE -- 5. MARITAL DISTRESS AND SOCIAL SUFFERING -- 6. MATRIFOCAL KINSHIP AND AMOR VERDADEIRO -- 7. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX

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Using an intersectional approach, Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil 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. Melanie A. Medeiros explores the women's rich stories of desire, love, respect, suffering, strength, and transformation.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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