Full Description
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.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: From "Worlds of Pain" to a "World of Choice"—Lillian Rubin's Worlds; Part I Asking Like a Therapist, Listening as a Sociologist; Chapter 2 Up from the Immigrant Ghetto; Chapter 3 Integrating Society into Psychology; Chapter 4 Sociological Research: The Subjective Dimension; Part II Discovering Difference, Constantly Class-Conscious; Chapter 5 Family Values and the Invisible Working Class; Chapter 6 Worlds of Pain Revisited: 1972 to 1992; Chapter 7 "Is This a White Country, or What?"; Chapter 8 The Approach-Avoidance Dance: Men, Women, and Intimacy; Part III Studying Sexuality, Addressing Age; Chapter 9 Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?; Chapter 10 Blue-Collar Marriage and the Sexual Revolution; Chapter 11 Sex and Sexuality: Women at Midlife; Chapter 12 Getting Younger While Getting Older: Family-Building at Midlife; Chapter 13 Out of the Closet; Part IV Political Perspectives; Chapter 14 Why Don't They Listen to Us?; Chapter 15 What Am I Going to Do with the Rest of My Life?; Chapter 16 Race and Gender in Politics;
