Cross-Cultural Marriage

Identity and Choice
Herausgeber: Breger, Rosemary; Hill, Rosanna

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book should be highly relevant to the growing number of people in cross-cultural marriages, as well as to professionals in the fields of marriage guidance, child welfare and academics interested in ethnicity and kinship. · the legal and social factors influencing cross-cultural marriages; · the personality factors and positive or negative stereotypes of ‘otherness’ that influence spouse choice; · notions of identity, gender and personhood, and definitions of difference, and how these are often tied up in emotive stereotypes; · how all these factors affect the ongoing process of living together and the ability to cope; · and how the children of such marriages come to terms with identity choices. This book should be highly relevant to the growing number of people in cross-cultural marriages, as well as to professionals in the fields of marriage guidance, child welfare and academics interested in ethnicity and kinship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781859739631
• ISBN-10: 1859739636
• Artikelnr.: 21885094

Autorenporträt

Rosemary Breger The Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women Rosanna Hill Freelance Researcher

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introducing Mixed Marriages 2 Crossing Over: Mixing, Matching and
Marriage in Mallorca 3 Chance, Choice and Circumstance: A Study of Women in
Cross-Cultural Marriages 4 The Seduction of the Exotic: Notes on Mixed
Marriage in East Nepal 5 Crossing Racialized Boundaries: Intermarriage
between 'Africans' and 'Indians' in Contemporary Guyana 6 The Politics of
Cross-Cultural Marriage: An Examination of a Ghanaian/ African-American
Case 7 Freedom of Choice or Pandora's Box? Legal Pluralism and the
Regulation of Cross-Cultural Marriages in Uganda 8 Love and the State:
Women, Mixed Marriages and the Law in Germany 9 Cross-Cultural Marriage
within Islam: Ideals and Reality 10 English and North American
Daughters-in-Law in the Hindu Joint Family 11 Gender Identity and Gender
Role Patterns in Cross-Cultural Marriages: The Japanese-Danish Case 12 Not
all Issues are Black or White: Some Voices from the Offspring of
Cross-Cultural Marriages