Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil
Black Women's Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship
Seiten
2018
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-8824-7 (ISBN)
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-8824-7 (ISBN)
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. Melanie A. Medeiros explores the women's rich stories of desire, love, respect, suffering, strength, and transformation.
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.
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.
MELANIE A. MEDEIROS is an assistant professor in the department of anthropology at The State University of New York College at Geneseo.
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
Erscheinungsdatum | 19.09.2018 |
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Zusatzinfo | 1 table |
Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 454 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8135-8824-3 / 0813588243 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8135-8824-7 / 9780813588247 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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