Family and Gender Among American Muslims: Issues Facing Middle Eastern Immigrants And Their Decendants

Contents

List Of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction | Barbara Bilge and Barbara C. Aswad

Challenges to the Arab-American Family and Access (Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services) | Barbara C. Aswad and Nancy Adadow Gray 22

Part One: Values, Structure, and Variation in Muslim Families

Islamic Values Among American Muslims | Yvonne Y. Haddad and Jane I. Smith

Immigrant Palestinian Women Evaluate Their Lives | Louise Cainkar

Turkish-American Patterns Of Intermarriage | Barbara Bilge

The Iranian Ethnic Economy in Los Angeles: Gender and Entrepreneurship | Arlene Dallalfar

Parents And Youth: Perceiving And Practicing Islam in North America | Nimat Hafer Bara1angi

Sex and the Single Shi'ite: Mut'a Marriage in an American Lebanese Shi'ite Community | Linda S. Walbridge

South Asian Families in the United States: Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Indian Muslims | Nilufer Ahmed, Gladis Kaufman, and Shamim Naim

An International Family: A Case Study from South Asia | Gladis Kaufman and Shamim Nairn

Part Two: Practical Jssues for Families

Health Issues Among Arab Muslim Families | Anahid Kulwicki

Arab-American Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs About AIDS | Anahid Kulwicki and Penny S. Cass

Ethnicity, Marriage, and Role Conflict: The Dilemma of a Second-Generation Arab-American | Jon C. Swanson

Adolescent Arab Girls in an American High School | Charlene Joyce Eisenlohr

Care of the Elderly within Muslim Families | Mary C. Sengstock

Part Three: Immigrants' Life Stories

Five Immigrants | Linda S. Walbridge

Notes

Index

About The Authors