'Un noviazgo después de ser casados'*: Companionate Marriage, Sexual Intimacy, and the Modern Mexican Family

Categories and Contexts: Anthropological and Historical Studies in Critical Demography

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Hirsch, Jennifer S ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Companionate marriage; Confianza; Ethnography; Fertility decline; Gender; Mexico; Respeto; Sexuality; Social categories; Transnational migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920753449     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199270570.003.0014     Document Type: Chapter

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