The Family Experience: A Reader in Cultural Diversity Book

	Preface
	General Introduction	1
1	New Rules: Postwar Families (1955-Present)	15
2	The War over the Family Is Not over the Family	35
3	Interpreting the African Heritage in Afro-American Family Organization	52
4	Home, Sweet Home: The House and the Yard	63
5	The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship	69
6	Mexican American Women Grassroots Community Activists: "Mothers of East Los Angeles"	78
7	Immigrant Families in the City	89
8	What Kinds of Immigrants Have Come to the Philadelphia Area, Where Did They Settle, and How Are They Doing?	97
9	The Expanded Family and Family Honor	108
10	Poverty and Family Structure: The Widening Gap between Evidence and Public Policy Issues	123
11	Family Decline in America	142
12	History and Current Status of Divorce in the United States	150
13	The Economy of Dating	169
14	Two Can Make a Revolution	174
15	One Style of Dominican Bridal Shower	194
16	Politics and Politesse: Gender Deference and Formal Etiquette	205
17	The Feminization of Love	228
18	Is "Straight" to "Gay" as "Family" Is to "No Family"?	238
19	The Economy of Gratitude	244
20	The Good-Provider Role: Its Rise and Fall	257
21	Affluence and Poverty	272
22	"I Never Did Any Fieldwork, but I Milked an Awful Lot of Cows!": Using Rural Women's Experience to Reconceptualize Models of Work	296
23	Our Mothers' Grief: Racial Ethnic Women and the Maintenance of Families	317
24	From Baby Farms to Baby M	333
25	Dubious Conceptions: The Controversy over Teen Pregnancy	342
26	Other People and Their Families: The New Pioneers	353
27	The Future of Grandparenthood	361
28	To Be Old and Asian: An Unsettling Life in America	373
29	Grandparenting Styles: Native American Perspectives	376
30	The Victimized Self: The Case of Battered Women	395
31	The Changing Concept of Child Abuse and Its Impact on the Integrity of Family Life	404
32	Karla and the Armstrongs: Two Oral Histories of Homeless American Families	416
33	Uncoupling: The Social Construction of Divorce	421
34	Life-Span Adjustment of Children to Their Parents' Divorce	436
35	Remarriage as an Incomplete Institution	452
	Notes and References	463