1st Edition

Women, Family, and Class The Lillian Rubin Reader

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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;

    Biography

    MichaelS. Kimmel, AmyE. Traver