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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.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Hirsch, Jennifer S.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • "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.