Barbara Ehrenreich Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

A new selection of the most provocative, incendiary, and career-making pieces by bestselling author, essayist, political activist, and "veteran muckraker" (The New Yorker) Barbara Ehrenreich. A self-proclaimed "myth buster by trade," Barbara Ehrenreich has covered an extensive range of topics as a journalist and political activist, and is unafraid to dive into intellectual waters that others deem too murky. Now, Had I Known gathers the articles and excerpts from a long-ranging career that most highlight Ehrenreich's brilliance, social consciousness, and wry wit. From Ehrenreich's award-winning article "Welcome to Cancerland," published shortly after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, to her groundbreaking undercover investigative journalism in Nickel and Dimed, to her exploration of death and mortality in the New York Times bestseller, Natural Causes, Barbara Ehrenreich has been writing radical, thought-provoking, and worldview-altering pieces for over four decades. Her reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review, among others, while her essays, op-eds and feature articles have appeared in The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Time, The Wall Street Journal, and many more. Had I Known pulls from the vast and varied collection of one of our country's most incisive thinkers to create one must-have volume.

Bestselling author Barbara Ehrenreich explores how our obsession with longevity often detracts from living well. In a sharp polemic, she challenges the prevalent beliefs surrounding health, from preventive screenings to wellness trends, revealing how they lead us to overprepare and worry about the inevitable. Ehrenreich delves into the unreliability of our bodies and the concept of "mind-bodies," highlighting the paradox of our immune cells sometimes promoting cancers. She examines the cellular basis of aging, emphasizing our limited control over it. Despite our belief in agency over our health and mortality, recent science suggests that our bodies' microscopic components make independent "decisions" that may not align with our desires. We may invest in anti-aging products, undergo cosmetic procedures, or engage in mindfulness practices, but these pursuits often provide only an illusion of control. The book poses a vital philosophical challenge: how to live joyously while accepting our mortality. Drawing on personal experiences, sociological insights, and scientific literature, Ehrenreich humorously and critically addresses our obsession with health and death, ultimately exploring how we can better prepare for the end while still enjoying life.

POPULAR CULTURE. Offers a history of how it came to be the dominant mode in the USA. Ehrenreich conceived of the book when she became ill with breast cancer, and found herself surrounded by pink ribbons and platitudes. She balked at the way her anger about having the disease was seen as unhealthy and dangerous by health professionals and other sufferers. In her droll and incisive analysis of the cult of cheerfulness, Ehrenreich ranges across contemporary religion, business and the economy, arguing, for example, that undue optimism and a fear of giving bad news sowed the seeds for the current banking crisis. She argues passionately that the insistence on being cheerful actually leads to a lonely focus inwards, a blaming of oneself for any misfortunes, and thus to political apathy. Rigorous, insightful and bracing as always, and also incredibly funny, "Smile or Die" uncovers the dark side of the 'have a nice day' nation.

The author's second work of satirical commentary reflects on one of the cruelest decades in memory, the 2000s, in which she finds a nation scarred by deepening inequality, corroded by distrust, and shamed by its official cruelty. Her first book of satirical commentary, The Worst Years of Our Lives, was about the Reagan era. The one problem was the title: couldn't some prophetic fact-checker have seen that the worst years of our lives, far worse, were still to come? Here they are, the 2000s, and in this book she subjects them to biting and incisive satire. Taking the measure of what we are left with after the cruelest decade in memory, she finds lurid extremes all around. While members of the moneyed elite can buy congressmen, many in the working class can barely buy lunch. While a wealthy minority obsessively consumes cosmetic surgery, the poor often go without health care for their children. And while the corporate C-suites are now nests of criminality, the less fortunate are fed a diet of morality, marriage, and abstinence. Her anecdotes are as sardonic as they are spot-on: pet insurance for your kids; Salvation Army fashions for those who can no longer afford Wal-Mart; and rage against those who have given us a nation scarred by deepening inequality, corroded by distrust, and shamed by its official cruelty.

From a bestselling social commentator and cultural historian comes a fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing.

In 'Arbeit poor' hat Barbara Ehrenreich im Selbstversuch erkundet, ob (und wie) man von den Jobs im so genannten 'Niedriglohnsektor' leben kann. In ihrem neuen Buch beleuchtet sie einen weiteren dunklen Fleck der liberalisierten Arbeitswelt: den arbeitslosen Mittelstand. Ausgerüstet mit einer neuen Identität und einem Lebenslauf voller Qualifikationsnachweise versucht sie fast ein Jahr lang mit vollem Einsatz, Arbeit zu finden. Doch aus dem geplanten direkten Weg zu einer neuen Festanstellung wird eine Irrfahrt durch die Bewerbungswüste. Eine Schattenwelt tut sich auf: Vermittlungsagenturen, Berater und Karrierecoachs bieten ihre Dienste an, Imagepflege, Networking und der Besuch von Jobmessen füllen die Tage. Obwohl die Arbeitssuche sich zum Fulltimejob auswächst, schafft Barbara Ehrenreich es kaum bis zum ersten Vorstellungsgespräch. Umso tiefer sind ihre Einsichten in die Selektionsmechanismen einer Arbeitswelt, die längst auch die nicht mehr verschont, die studiert, sich qualifiziert und somit 'alles richtig gemacht' haben.

Intrigued by reports of poverty and despair within America's white-collar corporate workforce, the author decided to infiltrate their world as an undercover reporter, and learn about the problems facing middle-class executives. Her story is funny, and delivers a warning about the future that faces corporate employees everywhere.

In a world shaped by mass migration and economic exchange on an ever- increasing scale, women are moving around the globe as never before. This anthology examines the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of women worldwide. schovat popis

The New York Times bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Nickel and Dimed has already become a classic of undercover reportage.Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 to $7 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich moved from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, taking the cheapest lodgings available and accepting work as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart salesperson. She soon discovered that even the "lowliest" occupations require exhausting mental and physical efforts. And one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors.Nickel and Dimed reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity -- a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate strategies for survival. Instantly acclaimed for its insight, humor, and passion, this book is changing the way America perceives its working poor.

Published for the first time as a Granta Books paperback: Barbara Ehrenreich's groundbreaking investigation into the roots of war, with a new introduction by the author.

A satirist and social commentator looks into the soul of the 1990s in a collection of essays that takes a sharp look at both conservative and liberal viewpoints

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 an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the last two decades of the 20th century. Weaving finely-tuned expert analysis with her trademark voice, Ehrenreich traces the myths about the middle class to their roots, determines what led to the shrinking of what was once a healthy percentage of the population, and how, in its ambition and anxiety, that population has retreated from responsible leadership. Newly reissued and timely as ever, Fear of Falling places the middle class of yesterday under the microscope and reveals exactly how we arrived at the middle class of today.

From the bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed and a former editor in chief Mother Jones, this women's history classic brilliantly uncovers the constraints imposed on women in the name of science. Since the nineteenth century, professionals have been invoking scientific expertise to prescribe what women should do for their own good. Among the experts’ diagnoses and remedies: menstruation was an illness requiring seclusion; pregnancy, a disabling condition; and higher education, a threat to long-term health of the uterus. From clitoridectomies to tame women’s behavior in the nineteenth century to the censure of a generation of mothers as castrators in the 1950s, doctors have not hesitated to intervene in women’s sexual, emotional, and maternal lives. Even domesticity, the most popular prescription for a safe environment for women, spawned legions of “scientific” experts. Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English has never lost faith in science itself, but insist that we hold those who interpret it to higher standards. Women are entering the medical and scientific professions in greater numbers but as recent research shows, experts continue to use pseudoscience to tell women how to live. For Her Own Good provides today’s readers with an indispensable dose of informed skepticism.

Frauen waren die Ärztinnnen in der abendländlichen Vergangenheit. Sie waren Ratgeberinnen, Pflegerinnen, Pharmazeutinnen, Hebammen und Abtreiberinnen. Weise Frauen hießen sie im Volksmund. Für die Obrigkeit waren sie von einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt an Hexen und Kurpfuscherinnen. Die Unterdrückung der Frauen im Gesundheitsbereich hatte nichts mit ihrem Unvermögen und auch nichts mit Veränderungen in der medezinischen Wissenschaft zu tun. Es handelt vielmehr um die Machtübernahme der männlichen Ärzte. In der feministischen Selbsthilfebewegung haben Frauen sich die Fertigkeit ihrer Ahninnen zurückgeholt. "The witches are back."