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

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Medeiros, Melanie A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Black people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.) ill

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]

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.

Notes:

• Description based on print version record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780813588254
• 0813588251