A Courtship after Marriage : Sexuality and Love in Mexican Transnational Families /
Since 1960 the fertility rate in Mexico has dropped to about 2.6 children per woman. Such changes are part of a transformation explored in this ethnographic study of generational and migration-related redefinitions of gender, marriage and sexuality in rural Mexico and among Mexicans in Atlanta.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2003.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "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.