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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Medeiros, Melanie A.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (222 p.) :; 1 table
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780813588261; 9783110666083
• DOI: 10.36019/9780813588261?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Melanie A. Medeiros.

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.