Barbara Ehrenreich is an investigative writer and activist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, Mother Jones, and Vogue. She is best known for her book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America.
ARTICLES FEATURING BARBARA
Dystopian Bodies: Barbara Ehrenreich Attacks the Epidemic of Wellness
As Ehrenreich finds, not only is the science of wellness dubious, but its systems of self-control (like dieting) also reify class and gender hierarchies....
Not Raging Against the Dying of the Light
A sharp critique of the anti-aging industry from a keen observer of American flim-flam....
“Why Do We Die and What Is the Purpose of Life?”
FOR SOMEONE who can write with such incisive lucidity and elegance as Barbara Ehrenreich, it must be hard not to find ...
Letters to the Editors
It is difficult for an author to respond to a review without sounding churlish....
