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Author Hirsch, Jennifer S.

Title A courtship after marriage : sexuality and love in Mexican transnational families / Jennifer S. Hirsch.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 376 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome.
Description data file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-356) and index.
Contents "Here with us", introduction to a transnational community -- From respeto (respect) to confianza (trust), changing marital ideals -- "Ya no somos como nuestros papas" (We are not like our parents) : companionate marriage in a Mexican migrant community -- Representing change : a methodological pause to reflect -- "En el norte la mujer manda" (In the north, the woman gives the orders) : how migration changes marriage -- Sexual intimacy in Mexican companionate marriages -- Fertility decline, contraceptive choice, and Mexican companionate marriages.
Summary Since 1960 the fertility rate in Mexico has dropped to about 2.6 children per woman. Such changes are part of a transformation explored in this ethnographic study of generational and migration-related redefinitions of gender, marriage and sexuality in rural Mexico and among Mexicans in Atlanta.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Language English.
Subject Marriage -- Mexico.
Marriage.
Mexico.
Marriage -- Georgia -- Atlanta Region.
Georgia -- Atlanta Region.
Man-woman relationships -- Mexico.
Man-woman relationships.
Man-woman relationships -- Georgia -- Atlanta Region.
Mexicans -- Sexual behavior.
Mexicans -- Sexual behavior.
Mexican Americans -- Sexual behavior -- Georgia -- Atlanta Region.
Georgia.
Companionate marriage -- Mexico.
Companionate marriage.
Companionate marriage -- Georgia -- Atlanta Region.
Mexicans.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Marriage.
Mexican Americans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Subject Marriage.
Other Form: Print version: A courtship after marriage Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003. 0520228707 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2002154938
ISBN 9780520935839 ebook
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0520228707 cloth alkaline paper
0520228715 paperback alkaline paper
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9780520228719
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9781597344517
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