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Title: Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working-Class Family by Lillian B. Rubin ISBN: 0-465-09248-9 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: September, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Anecdotal and entertaining, but limited.
Comment: This book would probably be a lot of use to a writer or screenwriter who was researching the working-class family in the early 70s. The stories are interesting and the writing is fluid and compelling. It gives a good slice of life from several perspectives.
It *might* be of interest to a historian as anecdotal material, but it's good to note that this is a small sample of interviews carried out by a writer who obviously had her own agenda with the subject matter.
I bought it second-hand and don't regret the time to read it.
Rating: 4
Summary: informative
Comment: Though not perfect, Rubin's work sheds light on many of the inter-personal and inter-gender plaues on America's working class families. Most importantly, Rubin writes with a believable sensitivity that heightens the text's effictiveness.
Rating: 3
Summary: Entertaining. But rigorous sociology, it is not.
Comment: Lilian Rubin writes with an empathy that could only come from being the product of a working-class family herself. Unfortunately, the baggage which Rubin's brings along on her study tends to butt in inappropriately. In the chapter on the subject's childhood, for example, Rubin concludes that all of the subjects must have been unhappy during their early years because she could recall her "own impoverished background." It did not matter to Rubin that her subjects "implored, even commanded [her], to believe they had happy home lives as children."
It should also be noted that this study was conducted in 1972. While there is a fairly significant new introduction which Rubin wrote in 1992, the text of the book is unchanged. Certainly much has changed in the past twenty years. Both in terms of the jobs of the working-class, the sex lives of working-class couples, the reasons they marry, and even the definition of working-class itself.
In short, an interesting read by a talented writer. But rigorous sociology it is not.
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Title: Families on the Fault Line by Lillian B. Rubin ISBN: 006092229X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 11 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Transcendent Child: Tales of Triumph Over the Past by Lillian B. Rubin ISBN: 0060977205 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 09 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Intimate Strangers: Men and Women Together by Lillian B. Rubin ISBN: 0060911344 Publisher: HarperCollins (paper) Pub. Date: August, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: In the Name of the Family : Rethinking Family Values in the Postmodern Age by Judith Stacey ISBN: 0807004332 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title: Tangled Lives : Daughters, Mothers and the Crucible of Agin by Lillian Rubin ISBN: 0807067954 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 05 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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