Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich (born August 26, 1941) is a social critic and essayist. Her book Nickel and Dimed (2002) was a national bestseller in the United States. She is a prolific journalist who peppers her writing with a sardonic sense of humor.

Ehrenreich obtained a PhD in biology, but decided not to become a research scientist. She became involved in politics as an activist for social change.

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

Ehrenreich has also written for the New York Times, Mother Jones, The Atlantic Monthly, Ms, New Republic, Z Magazine, In These Times, Salon.com, and other publications.

She is the vice chair of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Books

Non-fiction

• Witches, Midwives, and Nurses (with Diedre English) (1973)
• The Hearts of Men (1987)
• Re-Making Love (with Elizabeth Hess and Gloria Jacobs) (1987)
• Fear of Falling (1989)
• For Her Own Good (with Diedre English) (1989)
• Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness (with Diedre English) (1991)
• The Mean Season (with Fred Block, Richard A. Cloward, and Frances Fox Piven) (1987)
• The Worst Years of Our Lives (1990)
• Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War (1991)
• The Snarling Citizen (1995)
• Nickel and Dimed (2002)
• Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy (with Arlie Hochschild and Arlie Russell Hochschild) (2003)

Fiction

• Kippers Game (1994)

External links

• Articles by Barbara Ehrenreich on Alternet]
• Nickel and Dimed .net, additional information on the book