Intercultural couples : crossing boundaries, negotiating difference

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Label

Intercultural couples : crossing boundaries, negotiating difference

Title remainder

crossing boundaries, negotiating difference

Statement of responsibility

Jill M. Bystydzienski

Creator

• Bystydzienski, Jill M., 1949-

Subject

• Cultural relations
• Cultural relations
• Electronic books
• Family & Marriage
• Intercountry marriage
• Intercountry marriage
• Interethnic marriage
• Interethnic marriage
• Interracial marriage
• Interracial marriage
• Racially mixed people
• Racially mixed people
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology | Marriage & Family
• Social Sciences
• Sociology & Social History
• USA
• Binationales Paar

Language

eng

Summary

Despite the growing presence of intercultural couples in the United States and worldwide, their stories often go untold. In Intercultural Couples, Jill Bystydzienski provides a rare and comprehensive understanding of the multidimensional experiences of intercultural couples, drawing mainly upon in-depth interviews with persons living in domestic partnerships-heterosexual and same-sex-representing a broad spectrum of ethnic, racial, religious, socioeconomic, and national backgrounds. In these relationships, each partner brings a different set of cultural experiences that may include gender expectations, ideas about appropriate relations with family members, childrearing, financial matters, and general lifestyle. Sometimes differences may be unrecognized or seen as minimal, yet some can become salient, forming the basis for conflict, enriching diversity, or both. Bystydzienski's findings show that, despite hurtful incidents from persons outside the couple partnerships, intercultural unions are a source of satisfaction for the partners, and are able to bridge divisions and reduce inequalities between persons of diverse backgrounds, providing a rich portrait of how these couples negotiate their identities as individuals and as couples in relation to the outside world

Member of

• UPCC book collections on Project MUSE

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

306.84/50973

Index

index present

LC call number

HQ1031

LC item number

.B97 2011eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography