1st Edition

Cross-Cultural Marriage Identity and Choice

Edited By Rosemary Breger, Rosanna Hill Copyright 1998
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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

Biography

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