Cross-Cultural Marriage

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.

Edited by Rosemary Breger, The Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women and Rosanna Hill, Freelance Researcher