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A courtship after marriage : sexuality and love in Mexican transnational families / Jennifer S. Hirsch.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hirsch, Jennifer S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marriage--Mexico.
- Marriage.
- Marriage--Georgia--Atlanta Region.
- Man-woman relationships--Mexico.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Man-woman relationships--Georgia--Atlanta Region.
- Mexicans--Sexual behavior.
- Mexicans.
- Mexican Americans--Sexual behavior--Georgia--Atlanta Region.
- Mexican Americans.
- Companionate marriage--Mexico.
- Companionate marriage.
- Companionate marriage--Georgia--Atlanta Region.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (399 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From about seven children per woman in 1960, the fertility rate in Mexico has dropped to about 2.6. Such changes are part of a larger transformation explored in this book, a richly detailed ethnographic study of generational and migration-related redefinitions of gender, marriage, and sexuality in rural Mexico and among Mexicans in Atlanta.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-356) and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786612762499
- 9781597344517
- 1597344516
- 9780520935839
- 0520935837
- 9781282762497
- 1282762494
- OCLC:
- 475933390
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