Inside the American Couple
  Contents
  Acknowledgments
 expand sectionIntroduction

 expand section1. Biblical Models
 expand section2. Dearest Friend
 expand section3. “The Thing Bartered”
 expand section4. “Boston Marriage”  among Lesbians
 expand section5. “You'll Never Walk Alone”
 expand section6. The Couple at Home
 expand section7. When One of Us Is Ill
 expand section8. Wives and Husbands  Working Together
 expand section9. Grounds for Marriage
 expand section10. Divorce, American Style
 expand section11. What's a Wife Worth?
 expand section12. Toward an Understanding  of Asian American  Interracial Marriage  and Dating
 collapse section13. Arranged Marriages
 •ON A PERSONAL NOTE: WHAT HAVE I GOT TO DO WITH  ARRANGED MARRIAGES?
 •MY COUSIN'S STORY
 •TOWARD A FEMINIST VIEW OF ARRANGED MARRIAGES
 •historical changes and  cross-cultural variability
 •CHOICE IN LOVE VERSUS ARRANGED MARRIAGES:  HOW DIFFERENT?
 expand sectionCHOOSING A “SUITABLE BOY”
 expand sectionis happily ever after equally happy  in arranged marriages?
 •arranged marriages: what can we conclude?
 expand sectionfeminism and arranged marriages
 •FINAL WORDS
 •NOTES
 •REFERENCES
 expand section14. Marriage in Old Age

  Contributors
  Index
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