Cross-Cultural Marriage: Identity and Choice (Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women)

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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.