ABSTRACT
For more than 40 years, Lillian Rubin's work has stood as a model for the integration of the psychological and the sociological in studies of class, male-female relationships and friendships, women and aging, the sexual revolution, and the contemporary crisis of the American family. Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working-Class Family and her other books have been enormously influential. This new book brings together articles and book excerpts that reflect Rubin's revolutionary style and her distinct analytic contributions.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |40 pages
Asking Like a Therapist, Listening as a Sociologist
chapter |11 pages
Up from the Immigrant Ghetto
chapter |10 pages
Integrating Society into Psychology
chapter |16 pages
Sociological Research: The Subjective Dimension
part |77 pages
Discovering Difference, Constantly Class-Conscious
chapter |9 pages
Family Values and the Invisible Working Class
chapter |24 pages
Worlds of Pain Revisited: 1972 to 1992
chapter |19 pages
“Is This a White Country, or What?”
chapter |21 pages
The Approach-Avoidance Dance: Men, Women, and Intimacy
part |71 pages
Studying Sexuality, Addressing Age
chapter |11 pages
Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?
chapter |17 pages
Blue-Collar Marriage and the Sexual Revolution
chapter |20 pages
Sex and Sexuality: Women at Midlife
chapter |11 pages
Getting Younger While Getting Older: Family-Building at Midlife
chapter |7 pages
Out of the Closet
part |27 pages
Political Perspectives