Barbara Ehrenreich: 21 books

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This Land Is Their Land

Reports from a Divided Nation

by Barbara Ehrenreich
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008

America in the 'aughts—hilariously skewered, brilliantly dissected, and darkly diagnosed by the bestselling social critic hailed as "the soul mate"* of Jonathan Swift Barbara Ehrenreich's first book of satirical commentary, The Worst Years of Our Lives, about the Reagan era, was...
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Fear of Falling

The Inner Life of the Middle Class

by Barbara Ehrenreich
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2020

A brilliant and insightful exploration of the rise and fall of the American middle class by New York Times bestselling author, Barbara Ehrenreich. One of Barbara Ehrenreich's most classic and prophetic works, Fear of Falling closely examines the insecurities of the American middle class in...
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Natural Causes

An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer

by Barbara Ehrenreich
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018

A New York Times bestseller! From the celebrated author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better. A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe,...
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Bright-sided

How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

by Barbara Ehrenreich
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism Americans are a "positive" people—cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive,...
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Dancing in the Streets

A History of Collective Joy

by Barbara Ehrenreich
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007

From the bestselling social commentator and cultural historian, a fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy In the acclaimed Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich delved into the origins of our species' attraction to war. Here, she explores the...
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Nickel and Dimed

On (Not) Getting By in America

by Barbara Ehrenreich
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010

Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part...
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Living with a Wild God

A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

by Barbara Ehrenreich
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist, she is an author, journalist, activist,...
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No Future for You

Salvos from The Baffler

by Rick Perlstein, David Graeber, James Griffioen
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014

A new collection on carnival hokum and magical thinking in post-apocalypse America—brought to you by The Baffler. There's never been a better time to be outside the consensus—and if you don't believe it, then peer into these genre-defining essays from The Baffler, the magazine that's been...
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Bait and Switch

The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

by Barbara Ehrenreich
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006

The bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for America's ailing middle class what she did for the working poor Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in Bait and Switch, she enters another hidden realm of the economy: the...
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Complaints and Disorders

The Sexual Politics of Sickness

by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011

From prescribing the "rest cure" to diagnosing hysteria, the medical profession has consistently treated women as weak and pathological. Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English's concise history of the sexual politics of medical practices shows how this biomedical rationale was used to justify...
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Divided

The Perils of Our Growing Inequality

by Adam Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Barbara Ehrenreich
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

Essays on the dangers of the wealth and income gap, collected by the New York Times–bestselling author of It’s Even Worse Than You Think. This collection includes writings by a wide range of voices—including Adam Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Studs Terkel,...
Book cover of Witches, Midwives, & Nurses (Second Edition)
by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010

As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of healthcare in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how firmly entrenched we are in a system that doesn't work. Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, first published by the Feminist Press in 1973, is an...
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For Her Own Good

Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women

by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013

This women's history classic brilliantly exposed the constraints imposed on women in the name of science and exposes the myths used to control them. Since the the nineteenth century, professionals have been invoking scientific expertise to prescribe what women should do for their own good. Among the...
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Power Trip

U.S. Unilateralism and Global Strategy After September 11

by Barbara Ehrenreich
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

A concise dissection of the new U.S. unilateralism, Power Trip is the first book-length critique of this fundamental shift in U.S. foreign policy to consolidate and extend U.S. global control. Charting the new terrain of foreign policy after September 11 and demonstrating how the Bush administration...
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