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 famous books have been enormously influential. This book new brings together, for the first time, articles and book excerpts that reflect Rubin’s revolutionary style and her distinct analytic contributions.