Had I known : collected essays

Author

Barbara Ehrenreich

Call Number

• 814 E334 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, 2020.

Physical Description

xvi, 364 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

A self-proclaimed "myth buster by trade," Barbara Ehrenreich has covered an extensive range of topics as a journalist and political activist, and is unafraid to dive into intellectual waters that others deem too murky. Now, Had I Known gathers the articles and excerpts from a long-ranging career that most highlight Ehrenreich's brilliance, social consciousness, and wry wit.

Contents

• 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. 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. How "natural" is rape? ; The warrior culture ; At last, a new man ; Patriarchy deflated. 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 différence ; Outclassed: sexual harassment (with Alissa Quart). 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. 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.