Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women's Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship 444 in Literary Fiction swept every country

swept every country

blocks his way

And these are the ideals upon which the world's greatest Pan-African movement was built

[Christiansen’s] delight is infectious

Brazilian scholar and novelist Gilberto Freyre challenged the racist ideas of his day by defending the “African contribution” to Brazil’s culture

Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women's Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship 444 in Literary Fiction swept every countryUsing an intersectional approach, Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil explores rural, working class, black Brazilian womens perceptions and experiences of courtship, marriage and divorce. In this book, womens 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