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...

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...