Barbara Ehrenreich
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Barbara Ehrenreich's first book of satirical commentary, The Worst Years of Our Lives, about the Reagan era, was received with bestselling acclaim. The one problem was the title: couldn't some prophetic fact-checker have seen that the worst years of our lives-far worse-were still to come? Here they are, the 2000s, and in This Land Is Their Land, Ehrenreich subjects them to the most biting and incisive satire of her career.
Taking the measure of what...
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Author Barbara Ehrenreich relates her experiences from 1998 to 2000, during which time joined the ranks of the working poor as a waitress, hotel housekeeper, cleaning woman, nursing home aide, and Wal-Mart clerk to see for herself how America's "unskilled" workers are able to survive on only $6 or $7 an hour.
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"In middle age, Ehrenreich came across the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence and set out to reconstruct that quest, which had taken her to the study of science and through a cataclysmic series of uncanny-or as she later learned to call them, "mystical"-experiences. A staunch atheist and rationalist, she is profoundly shaken by the implications of her life-long search. Part memoir, part philosophical and spiritual inquiry, LIVING...
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Best-selling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich presents a fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing.
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¿Para qué sirve cuidarse si nuestros cuerpos no son de fiar?
Ehrenreich desmonta todas las manías que guían nuestros intentos por vivir una vida más larga y saludable, desde la importancia de las revisiones médicas preventivas hasta los conceptos de bienestar y mindfulness, desde las dietas de moda hasta la cultura del fitness.
Las células tienen la costumbre de envejecer o volverse cancerígenas, demostrando una y otra vez que nuestros cuerpos...
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Español
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Un libro necesario para entender muchos aspectos psicológicos de la crisis económica y social que vivimos.
Un ataque a la cultura del "yo lo valgo". Una llamada a la prudencia, a la responsabilidad individual y colectiva, y contra el pensamiento mágico que ha popularizado la autoayuda en los últimos años.
Escrito por una de las autoras más respetadas y carismáticas de Estados Unidos. Este libro ha suscitado una interesante controversia y...
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As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of healthcare in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how firmly entrenched we are in a system that doesn't work. Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, first published by the Feminist Press in 1973, is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunters. In this new edition, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English...
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Glass Mountain pamphlet volume no. 2
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The Feminist Press at CUNY
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[2011]
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English
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The classic work on women's health and how the medical establishment helped to justify sexism, by the authors of Witches, Midwives, and Nurses . From Barbara Ehrenrich, New York Times -bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed , Bright-Sided , and other titles, and Deirdre English, former editor of Mother Jones , this book delves into the history of how women have been diagnosed, defined, and often dismissed, by doctors, a problem that persists even...
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Witches, Midwives, and Nurses examines how women-led healing was delegitimized to make way for patriarchy, capitalism, and the emerging medical industry.
As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of healthcare in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how firmly entrenched we are in a system that doesn't work.
First published by the Feminist Press in 1973, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses is an essential...
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Hachette Books
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2019.
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English
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At 28, Stephanie Land's plans to attend a university and become a writer were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet and provide her daughter the very best life possible. Stephanie worked days, took classes online to earn a college degree, and began to write relentlessly. She wrote the true stories that weren't being told: the stories of overworked and underpaid Americans. She...