Barbara Ehrenreich

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Barbara Ehrenreich (2006)

Barbara Ehrenreich (* 26. August 1941 as Barbara Alexander in Butte , Montana ) is an American non-fiction author and journalist columnist .

Life

Barbara Alexander studied physics at Reed College and graduated in 1963. Five years later, she completed her scientific academic career with a PhD in cell biology from Rockefeller University .

From then on she worked as a journalist, taught and devoted herself to the course of the 1968 political issues. She met her first husband, John Ehrenreich, during an anti-Vietnam War campaign. She was the first president of America's Democratic Socialists .

Between 1991 and 1997, Ehrenreich was a regular columnist for the news magazine Time . She currently writes a regular column for The Progressive . Ehrenreich has been a frequent journalist for the New York Times , Mother Jones , The Atlantic Monthly , Ms. , The New Republic , Salon.com and others.

In 1998 and 2000 she taught essay writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley .

In the following years she published several non-fiction books that caused a stir. As an investigative journalist , she spent months researching the application situation and working world of McJobs and middle-class employees in the USA using undercover identities . After suffering from breast cancer, she took a critical look at positive thinking and positive psychology. She published this criticism in the book Smile or Die: How the ideology of positive thinking makes the world dumb .

In 2006, Ehrenreich founded United Professionals . In 2018 she was awarded the Erasmus Prize.

Works

Non-fiction

  • The Uptake, Storage, and Intracellular Hydrolysis of Carbohydrates by Macrophages (with Zanvil Cohn) (1969)
  • Long March, Short Spring the Student Uprising at Home and Abroad (1969)
  • The American Health Empire: Power, Profits, and Politics (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 (mit 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 (1987)
  • 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)
  • Blood rituals. Origin and history of the pleasure in war. (1999)
  • The Snarling Citizen: Essays (1995)
  • Nickel and Dimed : On (Not) Getting By In America (2001)
  • Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy (ed., With Arlie Russell Hochschild ) (2003)
  • Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream (2005)
  • Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy (2007)
  • Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America (2009) Paperback edition: Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World
  • Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer (2018)

novel

  • Kipper's Game (1994)

Essays

  • In Defense of Talk Shows ( TIME Magazine December 4, 1995)
  • Welcome to Cancerland (2001 National Magazine Award finalist)
  • A New Counterterrorism Strategy: Feminism (2005 AlterNet )
  • The charge: gynocide investigative journalism about the Dalkon Shield in the third world. In: Mother Jones
  • Fight for Your Right to Party ( TIME Magazine December 18, 2006)

Translations published abroad

in German:

  • Men's Hearts , 1984
  • Witches, Midwives and Nurses , 1987
  • Broken shackles , 1988
  • Fear of Falling , 1994
  • Blood Rituals , 1999
  • Work poor. On the way in the service society , German by Niels Kadritzke, Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-88897-283-6 .
  • Do we want to live forever? The wellness epidemic, the certainty of death and our illusion of control , German by Ursel Schäfer / Enrico Heinemann, Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-95614-234-5 .
  • Qualified and unemployed: a odyssey through the application desert , 2006
  • Smile or Die: How the Ideology of Positive Thinking Dumbs the World , 2010

In Finnish:

  • Nälkäpalkalla ( Nickel and Dimed ), 2003
  • Petetty keskiluokka ( Bait and Switch ), 2006

In French:

  • L'Amérique pauvre: Comment ne pas survivre en travaillant , 2005

Spanish:

  • Por cuatro duros: Cómo (no) apañárselas en Estados Unidos , 2003
  • Una historia de la alegría: el éxtasis colectivo de la Antigüedad a nuestros días , 2008

Swedish:

  • Det manliga hjärtat: revolten mot försörjarrollen , 1984
  • Barskrapad: Konsten att hanka sig fram , 2002

Portuguese:

  • Ritos de Sangue: Um estudo sobre as origens da guerra , 2000
  • Salário de Pobreza: Como sobreviver na America , 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography of the University of Oregon ( Memento from March 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ United Professionals Homepage
  3. ↑ Mother Jones Essay
personal data
SURNAME Ehrenreich, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alexander, Barbara (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American publicist and investigative journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Butte , Montana