| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 364 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
A collection of articles and excerpts from Barbara Ehrenreich's long-ranging career that highlight her social consciousness and wry wit. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Haves and Have-nots. Nickel-and-dimed: on (not) getting by in America -- How you can save Wall Street -- S&M as public policy -- Going to extremes: CEOs vs. slaves -- Are illegal immigrants the problem? -- What's so great about gated communities? -- Is it now a crime to be poor? -- A homespun safety net -- Dead, white, and blue: the great die-off of America's blue-collar white people. Health. Welcome to Cancerland -- The naked truth about fitness -- Got Grease? -- Our broken mental health system -- Liposuction: the key to energy independence -- The selfish side of gratitude. Men. How "natural" is rape? -- The warrior culture -- At last, a new man -- Patriarchy deflated. Women. Are women getting sadder? Or are we all just getting a lot more gullible? -- Our neighborhood porn committee -- Strategies of corporate women -- What Abu Ghraib taught me -- Making sense of La Difference-- Outclassed: sexual harassment (with Alissa Quart). God, Science, and Joy. Mind your own business -- The animal cure -- The missionary position -- The new creationism: biology under attack (with Janet McIntosh) -- Up close at Trinidad's carnival. Bourgeois blunders. Family values -- The cult of busyness -- Death of a Yuppie dream (with John Ehrenreich) -- The unbearable being of whiteness -- Is the middle class doomed? -- Welcome to Fleece U. -- Prewatched TV -- The recession's racial divide (with Dedrick Muhammad) -- Divisions of labor -- Throw them out with the trash: Why homelessness is becoming an Occupy Wall Street issue. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [351]-354) and index. |
| Subject |
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020
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Social problems -- United States.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Commentary & Opinion.
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| Genre/Form |
Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
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Essays.
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| Added Title |
Essays. Selections
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| ISBN |
9781455543670 (hardcover) |
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1455543675 (hardcover) |
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