TY - BOOK ID - 139082055 TI - Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil PY - 2018 SN - 0813588251 PB - Rutgers University Press DB - UniCat KW - Marriage KW - Blacks KW - Social Science KW - Social science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:139082055 AB - 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. ER -