| LC control no. | n 50030509 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3555.H65 |
| Personal name heading | Ehrenreich, Barbara |
| Variant(s) | ארנרייך, ברברה Alexander, Barbara, 1941-2022 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1941-08-26 |
| Death date | 2022-09-01 |
| Place of birth | Butte (Mont.) |
| Place of death | Alexandria (Va.) |
| Field of activity | Social history Economic history Immunology |
| Affiliation | Rockefeller University |
| Profession or occupation | Feminists Political activists Journalists Authors |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | Her Long March, short spring: the student uprising at home and abroad, 1969. Her Fear of falling, 1990: CIP t.p. (Barbara Ehrenreich) data sheet (b. 8/26/41) Barbara Ehrenreich web site, May 1, 2013: about (born in Butte, Montana in 1941) books (Long March, Short Spring: The Student Uprising at Home and Abroad (with John Ehrenreich) (1969); The American Health Empire: Power, Profits, and Politics (with John Ehrenreich and Health PAC) (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: Two Centuries 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 (1983); The Mean Season (with Fred L. 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); Kipper's Game (1993); The Snarling Citizen: Essays (1995); Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War (1997); 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); Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream (2005); Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy (2007); This Land Is Their Land: Reports From a Divided Nation (2008); Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America (2009), in the United Kingdom this book is called Smile Or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World.) Washington post WWW site, viewed Sept. 6, 2022 (in obituary dated Sept. 2, 2022: Barbara Ehrenreich, an author and essayist who picked apart the myths of the American Dream with books that included a firsthand struggle to live on minimum wage in "Nickel and Dimed" and a rebuke of by-the-bootstraps optimism in "Bright-Sided,” died Sept. 1 in Alexandria, Va. She was 81. Barbara Alexander was born in Butte, Mont., on Aug. 26, 1941. She received a doctorate in cellular immunology in 1968 from Rockefeller University in New York, where she met her first husband, John Ehrenreich. In the early 1970s, she was an assistant professor in health sciences at the State University of New York in Old Westbury and began lecturing at feminist and women's health events. Her writing career was already underway as well. Ms. Ehrenreich left academia in 1974 to write full time. Her gaze remained fixed steadily on those left behind by the U.S. economy or just hanging on) |
| Associated language | eng |
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