Medeiros, Melanie Angel

dc.contributor.advisor	Nichter, Mark	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Medeiros, Melanie Angel
dc.creator	Medeiros, Melanie Angel	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2014-08-27T23:58:10Z	en
dc.date.available	2014-08-27T23:58:10Z	en
dc.date.issued	2014	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10150/325502	en
dc.description.abstract	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 gendered division of labor in a growing eco-tourism economy, and the spread of the modern notion of romantic love and companionate marriage through popular telenovelas, are directly related to dramatic increases in separation and divorce in Brazil. I further argue that social inequality affects individual perceptions and experiences of divorce, and the embodied distress low-income Afro Brazilian women endure with marital failure is also an expression of social suffering.
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	The University of Arizona.	en_US
dc.rights	Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author.	en_US
dc.subject	Distress	en_US
dc.subject	Divorce	en_US
dc.subject	Kinship	en_US
dc.subject	Love	en_US
dc.subject	Marriage	en_US
dc.subject	Anthropology	en_US
dc.subject	Brazil	en_US
dc.title	"Then Come The Thorns": Marriage, Divorce and Distress Among Afro-Brazilians in Rural Northeast Brazil	en_US
dc.type	text	en
dc.type	Electronic Dissertation	en
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Arizona	en_US
thesis.degree.level	doctoral	en_US
dc.contributor.committeemember	Nichter, Mark	en_US
dc.contributor.committeemember	Roth-Gordon, Jennifer	en_US
dc.contributor.committeemember	Pike, Ivy	en_US
dc.contributor.committeemember	Nichter, Mimi	en_US
dc.description.release	Dissertation not available (per author's request)	en_US
thesis.degree.discipline	Graduate College	en_US
thesis.degree.discipline	Anthropology	en_US
thesis.degree.name	Ph.D.	en_US
dc.description.admin-note	Originally set to Release 22-July-2016; permanent restriction on 20-Feb-2016 per author request, KC	en
html.description.abstract	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 gendered division of labor in a growing eco-tourism economy, and the spread of the modern notion of romantic love and companionate marriage through popular telenovelas, are directly related to dramatic increases in separation and divorce in Brazil. I further argue that social inequality affects individual perceptions and experiences of divorce, and the embodied distress low-income Afro Brazilian women endure with marital failure is also an expression of social suffering.