Barbara Ehrenreich
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Category: American journalists
Barbara Ehrenreich (born August 26, 1941, in Butte, Montana) is a social critic and essayist. Her book Nickel and Dimed (2001) described her attempt to live on low-wage jobs and became a national bestseller in the United States, selling over 1 million copies; her companion book, Bait and Switch, was released in September 2005 and discusses her attempt to find a white-collar job. She is a prolific journalist who peppers her writing with a sardonic sense of humor. Ehrenreich is currently an honorary co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America.
She was born Barbara Alexander to Isabelle Oxley and Ben Alexander, a copper miner who went on to study at Carnegie Mellon University and become an executive at the Gillette Corporation. In 1963, she graduated with a BA in physics from Reed College, titling her senior thesis Electrochemical oscillations of the silicon anode, and in 1968 she received a Ph.D. in cell biology from Rockefeller University. She decided not to pursue a career in science after graduating, citing her interest in social change [1], and instead became involved in politics as an activist. She met her first husband, John Ehrenreich, doing anti-war activism in New York City. In 1970, her first child, Rosa, was born (Rosa is now a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, writing under her married name, Rosa Brooks). Her second child, Benjamin was born in 1972. (Ben Ehrenreich is now a freelance journalist; his first novel, The Suitors, was published in 2006). She divorced Ehrenreich and in 1983 married Gary Stevenson, who was then working as a warehouse employee and later become a union organizer. She and Stevenson divorced in the early 1990s and she has not remarried.
From 1991 to 1997, Ehrenreich was a regular columnist for Time magazine. Currently, Ehrenreich is a regular columnist with The Progressive.
Ehrenreich has also written for the New York Times, Mother Jones, The Atlantic Monthly, Ms, The New Republic, Z Magazine, In These Times, Salon.com, and other publications. In 1998 and 2000, she taught essay writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2004, she wrote a guest column for one month for the New York Times while regular columnist Thomas Friedman was on leave writing a book.
Ehrenreich was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after the release of her book, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. In her article "Welcome to Cancerland" in the November 2001 issue of Harper's Magazine, she describes her breast cancer experience and the problems with the breast cancer industry.
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Books
Non-fiction
- The Uptake, Storage, and Intracellular Hydrolysis of Carbohydrates by Macrophages (with Zanvil Cohn) (1969)
- Long March, Short Spring the Student Uprising at Home and Abroad (1969)
- The American Health Empire: Power, Profits, and Politics (1971)
- Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (with Deirdre English) (1972)
- Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness (with Deirdre English) (1973)
- For Her Own Good: 100 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women (with Deirdre English) (1978)
- Women in the Global Factory (1983)
- Re-Making Love: The Feminization of Sex (with Elizabeth Hess and Gloria Jacobs) (1986)
- The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment (1987)
- The Mean Season (with Fred Block, Richard A. Cloward, and Frances Fox Piven) (1987)
- Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class (1989)
- The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed (1990)
- Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War (1991)
- The Snarling Citizen: Essays (1995)
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America (2001)
- Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy (ed., with Arlie Hochschild) (2003) ISBN 0805075097
- Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream (2005)
Fiction
- Kipper's Game (1994)
Essays
- "Welcome to Cancerland" (2001 National Magazine Award finalist)
- "A New Counterterrorism Strategy: Feminism (2005 [ AlterNet] )
- "The Charge: Gynocide" investigative journalism about the Dalkon Shield in the third world. Mother Jones http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1979/11/ehrenreich.html
Translations
German:
- "Die Herzen der Männer", 1984
- "Hexen, Hebammen und Krankenschwestern", 1987
- "Gesprengte Fesseln", 1988
- "Angst vor dem Absturz", 1994
- "Blutrituale", 1999
- "Arbeit poor. Unterwegs in der Dienstleistungsgesellschaft", 2001
French:
- "L'Amérique pauvre : Comment ne pas survivre en travaillant", 2005
Spanish:
- "Por cuatro duros: Cómo (no) apañárselas en Estados Unidos", 2003
Swedish:
- "Det manliga hjärtat: revolten mot försörjarrollen", 1984
- "Barskrapad: konsten att hanka sig fram", 2002
External links
- Official website
- Articles by Barbara Ehrenreich on Alternet
- NickelAndDimed.net, on the book Nickel and Dimed in America
- Quotations
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