Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women''s Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship
ISBN: 9780813588261
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Marriage -- Brazil -- Bahia (State); Blacks -- Brazil -- Bahia (State);

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.

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