Rosemary Breger

Cross-Cultural Marriage: Identity and Choice - Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women Rosemary Breger 1st edition

Marc Notes: Preface / Rosemary Breger and Rosanna Hill -- Notes on contributors -- Introducing mixed marriages / Rosemary Breger and Rosanna Hill -- Crossing over: mixing, matching and marriage in Mallorca / Jackie Waldren -- Chance, choice and circumstance: a study of women in cross-cultural marriages / Jane Khatib-Chahidi, Rosanna Hill and Renee Paton -- The seduction of the exotic: notes on mixed marriage in East Nepal / Tamara Kohn -- Crossing racialized boundaries: intermarriage between 'Africans' and 'Indians' in contemporary Guyana / Yoshiko Shibata -- The politics of cross-cultural marriage: an examination of a Ghanaian/African-American case / Yvette Alex-Assensoh and A. B. Assensoh -- Freedom of choice or Pandora's box?: legal pluralism and the regulation of cross-cultural marriages in Uganda / Sanyu Semafumu -- Love and the state: women, mixed marriages and the law in Germany / Rosemary Breger -- Cross-cultural marriage within Islam: ideals and reality / Mai Yamani -- English and North American daughters-in-law in the Hindu joint family / Mary Sissons Joshi and Meena Krishna -- Gender identity and gender role patterns in cross-cultural marriages: the Japanese-Danish case / Kirsten Refsing -- Not all issues are black and white: some voices from the offspring of cross-cultural marriages / Audrey Maxwell; Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: Edited by Rosemary Breger, The Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women and Rosanna Hill, Freelance ResearcherReview Quotes: "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"Publisher Marketing: As societies world-wide become increasingly multicultural, so the issues of identity, belonging, tolerance and racism become imperative to understand in their various forms."

Contributor Bio:  Breger, Rosemary Breger is Associate Research Fellow at Queen Elizabeth House. Contributor Bio:  Hill, Rosanna Hill is a freelance researcher.