Table of Contents:
“…Rhetorical contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1: Family In Different Cultures -- Antidisestablishmentarianism / Gayle Pemberton -- Language of discretion / Amy Tan -- Valley of the gun / Joe Bageant -- Boyhood with Gurdjieff France / Fritz Peters -- Cousin marriage conundrum (Iraq) / Steve Sailer -- Little emperors (China) / Daniela Deane -- Wedding Iran / Firoozeh Dumas -- Happy family (short story) (China) / Lu Xun -- Connecting cultures -- 2: Turning Points -- You're short, besides / Suchen Chan -- Body art as visual language / Enid Schildkrout -- Letter A (Ireland) / Christy Brown -- Learning what was never taught (Germany) / Sabine Reichel -- Initiation of a Maasai Warrior (Kenya) / Tepilit Ole Saitoti -- Initiated into an Iban Tribe of Headhunters / Douchan Gersi -- Chopsticks (China) / Guanlong Cao -- Journey by inner light (India/US) / Meeta Kaur -- Connecting cultures -- 3: How Culture Shapes Gender Roles -- Real men don't or anti-male bias / Eugene R August -- Myth of the Latin women (Puerto Rico / US) / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Look behind the veil (Saudi Arabia) / Elizabeth W Fernea -- Arranging a marriage in India (India) / Serena Nanda -- Reading Lolita in Tehran (Iran) / Azar Nafisi -- Leaky (Brazil) / Don Kulick and Thais Machado-Borges -- Becoming a man / Paul Monette -- Amina (short story) (Lebanon) / Shirley Saad -- Connecting cultures -- 4: Working Lives -- Nickel-and-dimed / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Generation debt / Tamara Draut -- Rain of gold (Mexico) / Victor Villasenor -- Learning from Ladakh (India) / Helena Norberg-Hodge -- Why I quit the company (Japan) / Tomoyuki Iwashita -- What we think of America (Lebanon/US) / Hanan al-Shaykh -- Live free and starve (India/US) / Chitra Divakaruni -- Connecting cultures -- 5: Race, Class, And Caste -- What's in a name? …”