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Author Medeiros, Melanie A., author.

Title Marriage, divorce, and distress in Northeast Brazil : Black women's perspectives on love, respect, and kinship / Melanie A. Medeiros.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

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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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Marriage -- Brazil -- Bahia (State)
Marriage.
Brazil -- Bahia (State)
Black people -- Brazil -- Bahia (State)
Women, Black -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) -- Social life and customs.
Black people.
Manners and customs.
Women, Black.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Women, Black -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Marriage.
Other Form: Print version: 9780813588247 0813588243 (DLC) 2017033865 (OCoLC)1004000913
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