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

As societies world-wide become increasingly multicultural, so the issues of identity, belonging, tolerance and racism become imperative to understand in their various forms. This book adds to the discussion by examining the interface between the lived, personal experiences of people in cross-cultural marriages and wider socio-political issues. One major contribution this book offers is that the marriages discussed are from a very broad range of cultures and classes. Amongst other issues, contributors examine: 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. Review "Throws light on the existence of tolerant and intolerable enclaves, and the ability of one spouse to cope in a strange or hostile situation . . . should be of special interest to professional community workers and educators." --Oxford: The Journal of the Oxford Society "A welcome addition to the dearth of literature in the field." -- Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education "This book represents one of the first systematic collections of work on this topic . . . [It] represents an attempt to fill a gap in our knowledge about a socially important phenomenon." -- Contemporary Psychology "A welcome addition to the dearth of literature in the field." -- Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education About the Author Rosemary Breger The Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women Rosanna Hill Freelance Researcher