Cross-Cultural Marriage

by Breger, Rosemary Anne; Hill, Rosanna

• ISBN13: 9781859739686
• ISBN10: 1859739687
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. xiii
Introducing Mixed Marriages	p. 1
Crossing Over: Mixing, Matching and Marriage in Mallorca	p. 33
Chance, Choice and Circumstance: A Study of Women in Cross-Cultural Marriages	p. 49
The Seduction of the Exotic: Notes on Mixed Marriage in East Nepal	p. 67
Crossing Racialized Boundaries: Intermarriage between 'Africans' and 'Indians' in Contemporary Guyana	p. 83
The Politics of Cross-Cultural Marriage: An Examination of a Ghanaian/African-American Case	p. 101
Freedom of Choice or Pandora's Box? Legal Pluralism and the Regulation of Cross-Cultural Marriages in Uganda	p. 113
Love and the State: Women, Mixed Marriages and the Law in Germany	p. 129
Cross-Cultural Marriage within Islam: Ideals and Reality	p. 153
English and North American Daughters-in-Law in the Hindu Joint Family	p. 171
Gender Identity and Gender Role Patterns in Cross-Cultural Marriages: The Japanese--Danish Case	p. 193
Not all Issues are Black or White: Some Voices from the Offspring of Cross-Cultural Marriages	p. 209
Index	p. 229
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