A Courtship After Marriage

by Hirsch, Jennifer S.

• ISBN13: 9780520228719
• ISBN10: 0520228715
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

This is one of the very first volumes exploring the lives, private or otherwise, of migrants in the American Southeast. Given recent census results, which showed enormous growth in Mexican migration to the Southeastern US, this provides an intimate look at a group of our new neighbors about whom very little is known.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xi
List of Tables	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	1	(56)
``Here with Us'': Introduction to a Transnational Community	57	(24)
From Respeto (Respect) to Confianza (Trust): Changing Marital Ideals	81	(31)
``Ya No Somos Como Nuestros Papas'' (We Are Not Like Our Parents): Companionate Marriage in a Mexican Migrant Community	112	(45)
Representing Change: A Methodological Pause to Reflect	157	(23)
``En el Norte la Mujer Manda'' (In the North, the Woman Gives the Orders): How Migration Changes Marriage	180	(29)
Sexual Intimacy in Mexican Companionate Marriages	209	(22)
Fertility Decline, Contraceptive Choice, and Mexican Companionate Marriages	231	(34)
Conclusions	265	(22)
Notes	287	(42)
Glossary	329	(6)
References	335	(22)
Index	357