Lillie rubin biography meaning

American sociologist and writer (–)

Lillian Breslow Rubin (January 13, - June 17, ) was an American writer, professor, psychotherapist and sociologist.

She was a distinguished professor of sociology at Queens College and also worked as a senior researcher at the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of California, Berkeley.^[1] Rubin was a feminist.

Biography

Rubin was born in Philadelphia,^[3] and her parents were Jewishimmigrants from Russia.^[4] Her father died when she was five.^[4] Rubin and her brother moved to New York after her father died where Rubin's mother worked in the garment industry.^[3] The family grew up poor, and her mother was abusive, and often told Rubin that "Girls shouldn't be born."^[3] Rubin graduated high school at age fifteen and was hired as a secretary, a job her family saw as "a high achievement."^[5] Another reason she started working was so