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American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment
From the bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, an explanation of recent sexual culture and the loosening of marriage bonds in recent history. "Final...
150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women
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On (Not) Getting By in America
The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond,...
Origins and History of the Passions of War
What lies behind the human attraction to violence? Why do we glorify war, seeing it as an almost sacred undertaking? Barbara Ehrenreich is known for t...
The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
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 Ehre...
The Inner Life of the Middle Class
An analysis of the professional middle class from the liberal elite of the 1960s to the yuppies of the 1980s and the amount of power and influence the...
A History of Collective Joy
From the bestselling social commentator and cultural historian comes Barbara Ehrenreich's fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditio...
Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women
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. S...
A Non-Believer’s Search for the Truth about Everything
Barbara Ehrenreich is an acclaimed social critic on both sides of the Atlantic, renowned for her trenchant, witty polemics, her pieces of journalism, ...
How Positive Thinking is Undermined America
Barbara Ehrenreich's Bright-sided is a sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment ...
It's Never Too Late...
An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
From the celebrated author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better. A razor-sharp pol...
The Sexual Politics of Sickness
New edition of this bestselling book about the history of sexism in the medical profession....
Undercover in Low-Wage America
"With a new foreword by Matthew Desmond"--Cover....
How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World
A History of Women Healers
Traditionally women have been healers who also used empirical evidence and proven techniques to heal. Yet male "doctors", who based their healing prac...
A brilliant and insightful exploration of the rise and fall of the American middle class by New York Times bestselling author, Barbara Ehrenreich. One...
A Novel
From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a futuristic thriller about science, love, politics, and social disarray. Della M...
How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism, existential clarity and c...
Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
Two social scientists chart the consequences of the global economy on women across the world, revealing the underground economy that has turned many p...
Reports from a Divided Nation
America in the 'aughts—hilariously skewered, brilliantly dissected, and darkly diagnosed by the bestselling social critic hailed as "the soul mate"*...
unterwegs in der Dienstleistungsgesellschaft
Ein Jahr lang begab sich die Publizistin in die Welt der amerikanischen äworking poorä und zeigt in ihrer Reportage die menschenverachtenden Zustän...
Essays
There are no pieties, liberal or conservative, in Ehrenreich's world. Fiercely funny and militantly uncompromising, The Snarling Citizen contains some...
Women & Children First
Analyzes the impact of social service cutbacks, changes in the job market, and victim-blaming myths like the Black matriarchy theses of Daniel Patrick...
In this sequel to their underground bestseller Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, Ehrenreich and English document the tradition of American sexism in medi...
As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of health care in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and ho...
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses examines how women-led healing was delegitimized to make way for patriarchy, capitalism, and the emerging medical indust...
Killing by Remote Control
"Drone Warfare" is the first comprehensive analysis of one of the fastest growing--and most secretive--fronts in global conflict: the rise of robot wa...
The Women, Gender and Development Reader is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised ...
Corporate America's War on Working People
The stories behind the inequality crisis—a forty-year investigation by In These Times With heart-wrenching reporting and incisive analysis, In These...
A History of Women Healers, by Barbara Ehrenrich and Deirdre English
The (futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
Ehrenreich enters the shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed. Armed with a plausible résumé of a professional "in transition," she attempts to...
Undercover in Low-wage USA
A bestseller for decades, this contemporary classic gets a substantial new introduction by the authors....