Barbara Ehrenreich
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
- Literature by and about Barbara Ehrenreich in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Barbara Ehrenreich at perlentaucher.de
- Official homepage: barbaraehrenreich.com
- Official Twitter page: B_Ehrenreich
- Dancing in the Streets Reviews on Metacritic ( Memento from February 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- Article by Barbara Ehrenreich on Alternet
- NickelAndDimed.net Nickel and Dimed in America
- Barbara Ehrenreich on C-SPAN .
- Quotes from her
- More quotes
- United Professionals Directors and Advisors
- Death of a Yuppie Dream - The Rise and Fall of the Professional-Managerial Class (PDF; 1.9 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short biography of the University of Oregon ( Memento from March 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ United Professionals Homepage
- ↑ Mother Jones Essay
personal data | |
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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 |