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Author Popova, Elena, 1963-

Title Through alien eyes [electronic resource] : a view of America and intercultural marriages / Elena Popova.

Imprint New York : Algora Pub., c2008.

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Description x, 266 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Serious stuff : food -- Legends of the sex drive -- Pets, the true love -- Isn't that custom strange? -- Myths and standards -- Several horror stories -- Searching where life is better -- A nation of victims -- The globe of America -- The war of the worlds -- Borrowed lifestyle : American extravagance -- Moose and squirrels!, or images of Russians -- Demons she fights : the adjustment period -- The show must go on -- Watch you language -- To execute or to pardon? -- A woman at the door -- The competition of congregations, or which Christian is more of a Christian? -- Analyze this -- When Martians and Venusians clash -- Russian men vs. western counterparts -- The land of loneliness -- Just a click away -- Lies, love, and humiliation : visa stories -- What the statistics reveal -- Agencies and goods -- Creating a prey -- Tactics of violence -- Love : Russian style -- A young wife's diary -- Out of the horse's mouth, or so the horse says -- He says, she says -- Back on track -- Russians' talk -- Killed resurrection -- That's life -- Storybook endings -- Bridges and dividers.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Popova, Elena, 1963-
Intercountry marriage -- United States.
Men -- United States.
Women -- Russia (Federation)
Women immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.
Russians -- United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780875866390 (trade paper : alk. paper)
9780875866406 (case laminate : alk. paper)
9780875866413 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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