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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.

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.

Uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. Although sixteenth-century Europeans began to view mass festivities as foreign and 'savage', the author shows that they were indigenous to the West, from the ancient Greek's worship of Dionysus to the medieval practices of Christianity as a 'danced religion'.

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.

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

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

What draws our species to war and makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking? Social critic Ehrenreich plumbs the mystery of the human attraction to violence, taking the reader on a journey from the grasslands of prehistoric Africa to the trenches of Verdun, from the spectacular human sacrifices of precolonial Central America to the carnage and holocaust of 20th century total war. She traces the evolution of war from prehistoric forms of socially-sanctioned violence to the mass religion which nationalism has become and shows the persistence of ancient fears in the most modern rituals and passions of war.

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.

Provides a firsthand account of life in low-wage America--the story of Ehrenreich's attempts to eke out a living while working as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart associate. --From publisher description

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.

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.

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 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.

The New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed returns with a powerful, controversial memoir of her lifelong quest to discover "the Truth" -- about the universe, and everything else. Hailed by critics as an "intellectual and journalistic badass" (Entertainment Weekly), Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist, she is an author, journalist, activist, and advocate for social justice. Here, Ehrenreich reconstructs her childhood mission, bringing an older woman's wry and erudite perspective to a young girl's impassioned obsession with the questions that, at one point or another, torment us all: What's really going on? Why are we here? The result is both personal and sweeping -- a searing memoir and a profound reflection on science, religion, and the human condition. In Living with a Wild God, Ehrenreich offers a true literary achievement -- a work that has the power not only to entertain, but amaze.

"A gruelling and darkly funny odyssey through the underside of working America. ""A valuable and illuminating book... Barbara Ehrenreich is now our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism"" (New York Times Book Review)"

"With a new foreword by Matthew Desmond"--Cover.

Ehrenreich's core philosophy holds that aging people have the right to determine their quality of life and may choose to forgo painful and generally ineffective treatments. She presents evidence that such tests as annual physicals and Pap smears have little effect in prolonging life; investigates wellness trends, including mindfulness meditation; and questions the doctrine of a harmonious "mindbody" and its supposed natural tendency to prolong life. Mostly, she urges that we recognize that death is natural, that we enjoy our lives while we can, and that we disabuse ourselves of any self-serving notions of post-mortem permanence or even influence

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."

Nagroda PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay dla najlepszej książki eseistycznej. „Gdybym wiedziała” to zbiór najsłynniejszych i najbardziej prowokujących esejów zmarłej w 2022 roku bestsellerowej autorki i aktywistki politycznej Barbary Ehrenreich. Społeczne postrzeganie chorych onkologicznie, obraz amerykańskiej biedy, nowe wizje ról kobiet i mężczyzn, religia i mistycyzm – autorka nie bała się zanurzać w intelektualne wody, które inni uważali za zbyt mętne. Ta kolekcja gromadzi teksty z czterdziestoletniej kariery autorki, które najbardziej podkreślają jej błyskotliwość, świadomość społeczną i ironiczny dowcip. Od wielokrotnie nagradzanego artykułu „Witamy w krainie raka”, opublikowanego wkrótce po zdiagnozowaniu u niej raka piersi, po jej przełomowe tajne dziennikarstwo śledcze w „Za grosze”, Barbara Ehrenreich przez ponad czterdzieści lat pisała rzeczy radykalne, skłaniające do myślenia i zmieniające światopogląd. Jej recenzje ukazywały się między innymi w takich pismach jak „New York Times Book Review”, „Washington Post”, „Atlantic Monthly” i „Los Angeles Times Book Review, a jej eseje, felietony i artykuły publikowały „New York Timesie”, „Harper's Magazine”, „New York Times Magazine, „Time”, „Wall Street Journal” i wielu innych. „Gdybym wiedziała” czerpie z ogromnego i zróżnicowanego dorobku jednej z najbardziej przenikliwych amerykańskich myślicielek.

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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.