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Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Born	August 26, 1941; Butte, Montana
Occupation	Social critic, journalist, author
Genre	Non-fiction (Sociology), fiction novel

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Barbara Ehrenreich (born August 26, 1941

Ehrenreich was born Barbara Alexander to Isabelle Oxley and Ben Alexander. Ben Alexander was a copper miner who went on to study at Carnegie Mellon University and became an executive at the Gillette Corporation.

Ehrenreich herself decided to study physics at Reed College, receiving her BA in 1963. Her senior thesis was titled Electrochemical oscillations of the silicon anode. She went on to receive a Ph.D in cell biology from Rockefeller University in 1968.

Despite having the appropriate credentials, she decided not to pursue a career in science after graduating, citing her interest in social change [1], and instead became involved in politics as an activist. She met her first husband, John Ehrenreich, doing anti-war activism in New York City. In 1970, her first child, Rosa (later Rosa Brooks), was born. Her second child, Benjamin was born in 1972. She divorced Ehrenreich and in 1983 married Gary Stevenson, who was then working as a warehouse employee and later become a union organizer. She and Stevenson divorced in the early 1990s and she has not remarried.

From 1991 to 1997, Ehrenreich was a regular columnist for Time magazine. Currently, Ehrenreich is a regular columnist with The Progressive.

Ehrenreich has also written for the New York Times, Mother Jones, The Atlantic Monthly, Ms, The New Republic, Z Magazine, In These Times, Salon.com, and other publications. In 1998 and 2000, she taught essay writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

In 2004, she wrote a guest column for one month for the New York Times while regular columnist Thomas Friedman was on leave writing a book. She received much acclaim for her columns and was invited by the Times to stay on as a full columnist, but declined, saying that she preferred to spend her time on more long-term activities like writing books.

Ehrenreich was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after the release of her book, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. In her article "Welcome to Cancerland" in the November 2001 issue of Harper's Magazine, she describes her breast cancer experience and the problems with the breast cancer industry.

In 2006, Ehrenreich founded "United Professions." The organization website decribes it as "a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization for white collar workers, regardless of profession or employment status. We reach out to all unemployed, underemployed and anxiously employed workers — people who bought the American dream that education and credentials could lead to a secure middle class life, but now find their lives disrupted by forces beyond their control."

Books

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: 100 Years 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 (1987)
The Mean Season (with Fred 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 Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War (1991)
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 Hochschild) (2003) ISBN 0-8050-7509-7
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream (2005)

Fiction

Kipper's Game (1994)

Essays

"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. Mother Jones http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1979/11/ehrenreich.html

Translations

German:

"Die Herzen der Männer", 1984
"Hexen, Hebammen und Krankenschwestern", 1987
"Gesprengte Fesseln", 1988
"Angst vor dem Absturz", 1994
"Blutrituale", 1999
"Arbeit poor. Unterwegs in der Dienstleistungsgesellschaft", 2001

Finnish:

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

French:

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

Spanish:

"Por cuatro duros: Cómo (no) apañárselas en Estados Unidos", 2003

Swedish:

"Det manliga hjärtat: revolten mot försörjarrollen", 1984
"Barskrapad: konsten att hanka sig fram", 2002

Portuguese:

"Salário de Pobreza: Como (não) sobreviver na América", 2004

External links

Official website

Articles by Barbara Ehrenreich on Alternet
NickelAndDimed.net, on the book Nickel and Dimed in America

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 Ehrenreich herself decided to study physics at [[Reed College]], receiving her BA in 1963. Her senior thesis was titled ''Electrochemical oscillations of the silicon anode''. She went on to receive a Ph.D in cell biology from [[Rockefeller University]] in 1968.
-Despite having the appropriate credentials, she decided not to pursue a career in science after graduating, citing her interest in [[social change]] [http://lnf.uoregon.edu/notable/ehrenreich.html], and instead became involved in politics as an [[activist]]. She met her first husband, John Ehrenreich, doing [[Peace movement|anti-war activism]] in [[New York City]]. In 1970, her first child, [[Rosa Brooks|Rosa]], was born. Her second child, [[Ben Ehrenreich|Benjamin]] was born in 1972. She divorced Ehrenreich and in [[1983]] married Gary Stevenson, who was then working as a warehouse employee and later become a union organizer. She and Stevenson divorced in the early 1990s and she has not remarried.
+Despite having the appropriate credentials, she decided not to pursue a career in science after graduating, citing her interest in [[social change]] [http://lnf.uoregon.edu/notable/ehrenreich.html], and instead became involved in politics as an [[activist]]. She met her first husband, John Ehrenreich, doing [[Peace movement|anti-war activism]] in [[New York City]]. In 1970, her first child, [[Rosa Brooks|Rosa (later Rosa Brooks)]], was born. Her second child, [[Ben Ehrenreich|Benjamin]] was born in 1972. She divorced Ehrenreich and in [[1983]] married Gary Stevenson, who was then working as a warehouse employee and later become a union organizer. She and Stevenson divorced in the early 1990s and she has not remarried.
 From [[1991]] to [[1997]], Ehrenreich was a regular columnist for ''[[Time magazine|Time]]'' magazine. Currently, Ehrenreich is a regular columnist with ''[[The Progressive]]''.