By PAUL VITELLOJULY 1, 2014
Lillian B. Rubin, a sociologist and psychotherapist who wrote a series of popular books about the crippling effects of gender and class norms on human potential, died June 17 at her home in San Francisco. She was 90.
Her daughter, Marci Rubin, confirmed the death.
Dr. Rubin wrote a dozen books and hundreds of magazine and online articles in later years that explored the fault line between the received truths of contemporary life and people's real lives.
She asked why the American dream was a Sisyphean heartbreak for so many in "Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working-Class Family" (1976); explored the identity crisis of middle-aged women in "Women of a Certain Age: The Midlife Search for Self" (1979); and examined why marriage so often fails in "Intimate Strangers: Men and Women Together" (1983).
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/02/us/lillian-b-rubin-90-is-dead-wrote-of-crippling-effects-of-gender-and-class-norms.html?_r=0
