"Then Come The Thorns": Marriage, Divorce and Distress Among Afro-Brazilians in Rural Northeast Brazil

In this dissertation, I use separation and divorce as the lens through which I examine the impact of modernization and globalization on the intimate lives and the health and well-being of low income women of African descent in rural Northeast Brazil. I argue that trends such as shifts in the gendere...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Medeiros, Melanie Angel
Other Authors: Nichter, Mark
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/325502