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An exploration of the role of friendship in men's and women's lives.

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Library Journal Review

Rubin, author of Intimate Strangers ( LJ 4/1/83) and other books on human relationships, here explores the phenomenon of friendship. What is it? What are its effects on us? Is it different between men and women, straights and gays? Can a man and a woman be ``just friends''? Well considered and thought provoking, Rubin's discussion is bolstered with interviews with people from all areas of society, describing their own feelings about their friends and themselves. Without the jargon-ridden glibness that characterizes most popular psychology, this may not appeal to a large audience, but it is a good treatment of a subject too often ignored. Susan B. Hagloch, Tuscarawas County P.L., New Philadelphia, Ohio (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

Rubin's book is a finely crafted and perceptive investigation of the nature of friendship in contemporary American society. Based on information collected from interviews with 400 subjects from a variety of social circumstances, the book is anything but a dry recitation of meaningless statistics. The author has, instead, constructed a lively and penetrating account of the complexities and paradoxes of friendship in which the reality of her informants' experience is brought to life with insight and grace. Rubin is able to draw upon classic and current research on friendship while remaining remarkably unburdened by social scientific jargon. As in her previous books (Busing and Backlash, 1972; Feminist Perspectives, 1976; Intimate Sangers, 1983) she demonstrates that she is a keen observer of human social interaction, particularly between males and females. Academic and general readers alike will find this an important, wise, and informative work.-R.R. Cornelius, Vassar College

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Lillian B. Rubin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 13, 1924. She graduated from high school at the age of 15, was able to obtain a secretarial job, and was married at the age of 19. She had a daughter and worked at various jobs for over 20 years before enrolling in college in 1963. She received a B.A. in 1967 and a Ph.D. in sociology in 1971 from the University of California, Berkeley. After receiving postgraduate training as a psychotherapist, she began a dual career as a sociological researcher and a private therapist. She became a senior research associate at the Institute for the Study of Social Change at Berkeley, where she worked for many years while writing books.

She wrote a series of popular books about the crippling effects of gender and class norms on human potential. Her books include Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working-Class Family, Women of a Certain Age: The Midlife Search for Self, Intimate Strangers: Men and Women Together, Just Friends: The Role of Friendship in Our Lives, Families on the Fault Line: America's Working Class Speaks about the Family, the Economy, Race, and Ethnicity, and The Transcendent Child: Tales of Triumph over the Past. She died on June 17, 2014 at the age of 90.

(Bowker Author Biography)