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Autore: | Hirsch Jennifer S |
Titolo: | A courtship after marriage [[electronic resource] ] : sexuality and love in Mexican transnational families / / Jennifer S. Hirsch |
Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (399 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.81/0972 |
Soggetto topico: | Marriage - Mexico |
Marriage - Georgia - Atlanta Region | |
Man-woman relationships - Mexico | |
Man-woman relationships - Georgia - Atlanta Region | |
Mexicans - Sexual behavior | |
Mexican Americans - Sexual behavior - Georgia - Atlanta Region | |
Companionate marriage - Mexico | |
Companionate marriage - Georgia - Atlanta Region | |
Soggetto non controllato: | academic |
atlanta | |
childbirth | |
cultural anthropology | |
doctors | |
domestic | |
ethnographic | |
ethnography | |
fertility issues | |
fertility rate | |
fertility | |
gender studies | |
gender | |
immigrants | |
latin america | |
marriage and family | |
marriage | |
medical science | |
mexico | |
reproduction | |
reproductive health | |
rural communities | |
rural mexico | |
scholarly | |
sexual intercourse | |
sexuality | |
social changes | |
womens health | |
womens issues | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-356) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | "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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | A courtship after marriage |
ISBN: | 1-59734-451-6 |
0-520-93583-7 | |
9786612762499 | |
1-282-76249-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910777068103321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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