Family and gender among American Muslims: issues facing Middle Eastern immigrants and their descendants

List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Barbara C. Aswad and Barbara Bilge Part I: Values, Structure, and Variation in the Muslim Family 1. Islamic Values among American Muslims Yvonne Y. Haddad and Jane I. Smith 2. Immigrant Palestinian Women Evaluate Their Lives Louise Cainkar 3. Turkish-American Patterns of Intermarriage Barbara Bilge 4. Iranian Immigrant Women as Entrepreneurs in Los Angeles Arlene Dallalfar 5. Parents and Youth: Perceiving and Practicing Islam in North America Nimat Hafez Barazangi 6. Sex and the Single Shi'ite: Attitudes toward Mut'a Marriage in an American Lebanese Shiite Community Linda Walbridge 7. South Asian Families in the United States: Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Indian Muslims Nilufer Ahmed, Gladis Kaufman, and Shamim Naim 8. The International Family: A Case Study…