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Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women's Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship 444 in Literary Fiction blocks his wayUsing 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