'God Save the Fan' - sports insights, cliches Feb 6, 2008
It's also worth considering that, as Barbara Ehrenreich so brilliantly points out in "Dancing in the Streets," humans have always joined together for massive public celebrations that involve dressing up in costumes and dancing. In any event, something other than mere escapism has to explain the fanatical devotion to a corporate-owned sports franchise. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Why the Left Hates Democracy Jan 3, 2008
Leading leftists such as Edward Said, Toni Morison, Jesse Jackson, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jane Fonda and Jim McDermott took out full-page ads condemning the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan ... Leading leftists such as Edward Said, Toni Morison, Jesse Jackson, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jane Fonda and Jim McDermott took out full-page ads condemning the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan. (Townhall.com)
Newsweek: Romney's Huckabee attacks false Dec 20, 2007
Read Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich to see what I mean. Posted By: zackisaiah @ 12/19/2007 11:00:48 PM. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Review: It's the workers who are trapped in O'Nan's 'Last Night at the Lobster' Nov 26, 2007
"Their receipts were okay, not great but better than last year - and this was with all that construction on 9 during the summer. They hadn't even gotten their fall numbers. The last thing he'd received from headquarters was Ty's ten-year-old pin, then BOOM, like an old building being imploded, all of it falling at once like it was made of sand." Unlike, say, Michael Moore, or even Barbara Ehrenreich, O'Nan clearly believes he should show, not tell. The other throughline in this novel, which... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Pretty in pink women shop for a cure Oct 21, 2007
As Barbara Ehrenreich commented in a famous essay: "Certainly men diagnosed with prostate cancer do not receive gifts of Matchbox cars.". Most insidious, though, is the concept of "shopping for the cure", and the way it naturalises the idea of women as gleeful consumers of fashion and luxury items. (The Age)
Books in brief Oct 14, 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich at Willamette University. SALEM Barbara Ehrenreich, journalist and the author of the million-copy bestseller Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America and the New York Times bestseller Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream, will deliver the fall Atkinson Lecture at Willamette University at 8 p.m. Thursday in Smith Auditorium. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Cohen: Hillarys Flawless Campaign Oct 6, 2007
Her flat, monotonic voice lays out yards of opaque white gauze, observed Barbara Ehrenreich. Where does she stand. (Zmag.org)
Clinton And Obama: Wheres The Enthusiasm? Oct 4, 2007
(The Nation) This column was written by Barbara Ehrenreich ... By Barbara EhrenreichReprinted with permission from the The Nation. (CBS News)
Lorraine Rothman, 75; feminist clinic's co-founder helped demystify gynecology Oct 3, 2007
The two women's pioneering efforts helped unleash a cultural revolution that, according to writer and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich, "legitimized the notion that we have the right to know and to decide about procedures -- from sterilization to hormone treatments -- that affect our bodies and our lives.". "What they did by introducing gynecological self-exams was very revolutionary at the time," Ehrenreich said Tuesday. (Los Angeles Times)
Ehrenreich: Lifetime of Debt Sep 13, 2007
by Barbara Ehrenreich. September 13, 2007. (Zmag.org)
This week: the celebrity embed Sep 1, 2007
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Rally Fizzles Aug 24, 2007
Sign up now for FREESmartMoney. com Newsletters Enter your email address below. (SmartMoney)
High School Reading Lists Get A Makeover Aug 9, 2007
More Modern Titles Are Taking Their Place Next To The Classics. Musicians and comedians, actors and athletes, politicians and the pope -- they're all writing. (CBS News)
High schoolers busy with summer reading Aug 3, 2007
At West Scranton High School, all students must read Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, the 2002 book by Barbara Ehrenreich. For the New York Times best-selling book, Ms. Ehrenreich worked several low-paying jobs to try to make ends meet. (Scranton Times, PA)
Ehrenreich: Health Care vs. Profit Jul 15, 2007
by Barbara Ehrenreich ... Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of (Owl), is the winner of the. (Zmag.org)
How do you know? And does it really matter? Jun 23, 2007
Among those joining the backlash is writer Barbara Ehrenreich, whose revelation about the perils of positive thinking came as she entered into one of the more miserable chapters of her life ... But as Barbara Ehrenreich found out, sometimes disaster cannot be averted no matter what your natural thought pattern. (Globe and Mail)
Barbara Ehrenreich in Action Jun 20, 2007
Within these parameters, celebrated author Barbara Ehrenreich has become a role model for conduct under crisis. Ehrenreich is a well known columnist whose work has regularly appeared in numerous periodicals including The Atlantic Monthly, The Progressive, and Harper s Magazine. (Suite101.com)
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Jun 20, 2007
A few years after Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a best selling book on a decade of greed, she stepped into the flat-soled shoes of a waitress in Key West, Fla ... Barbara Ehrenreich picked and chose the venues she worked in ... Author Barbara Ehrenreich will talk about her experiences working for minimum wage and what has transpired since at 7 tonight at the Presbyterian Church of the Big Wood. (Wood River Journal, ID)
Pomp, tough circumstance Jun 18, 2007
You may be feeling desperate enough to take whatever comes along. Some of you will get caged in cubicles until you're ejected by the next wave of layoffs. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Ehrenreich: Rich Making the Poor Jun 15, 2007
by Barbara Ehrenreich ... Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of thirteen books, including the New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed. (Zmag.org)
What We Owe Illegal Immigrants Jun 14, 2007
(The Nation) This column was written by Barbara Ehrenreich. Rush Limbaugh has been expecting liberals to start "whining" about the $5,000 fine undocumented immigrants will have to pay to gain citizenship under the new immigration bill. (CBS News)
BRIAN TILL: Future not so bright for 2007 college grads Jun 14, 2007
com: Opinions in The Bee: BRIAN TILL: Future not so bright for 2007 college grads. Call: (800) 877-3400. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Monday Matters: Empty core Jun 11, 2007
Author Barbara Ehrenreich suspects that something else might have been at work. Ehrenreich wrote that Jones might have been fired precisely because she did such a good job. (Montana Standard, MT)
Meanwhile: I am, therefore I need to dance Jun 4, 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich is the author, most recently, of "Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy.". . (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Mothers in arms Jun 1, 2007
Indeed, it was truly liberal U.S. feminists such as Anna Quindlen and Barbara Ehrenreich who saw their country's "welfare reform" for what it really was workfare and correctly predicted that many lives would be the worse for it. While Canada's daycare policies are not yet workfare, poor mothers do receive a massive and disproportionate amount of state benefits only if they fit themselves and their children into the market economy. (Globe and Mail)
Who's Pushing For Muslim Women's Rights? May 30, 2007
According to Sommers's "The Subjection of Islamic Women and the Fecklessness of American Feminism" the major obstacles in the path of Muslim women's progress are Eve Ensler, Barbara Ehrenreich, the National Organization for Women and me. She attacks any feminist, basically, who either concentrates on domestic issues, as NOW does, or who makes theoretical connections between the situation of women in the West and elsewhere. (CBS News)
C-SPAN2/BookTV Features Encore Presentation of 1920 Author David Pietrusza and ABC's Ann Compton May 26, 2007
Bob Dole, John Kasich, Simon Schama, George Soros, Kevin Phillips, Tom Tancredo, Ralph Peters, Lee Hamilton, Fred Barnes, Haynes Johnson, Charles Rangel (, , ), Jabari Asim, Simon Schama, Rod Paige, Sister Helen Prejean, George Wiegel, Ali Allawi, Barbara Ehrenreich. Bill Bradley. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Examining greed and need May 23, 2007
The project will also include two films, a panel discussion and a lecture by Barbara Ehrenreich, who documented her experiences working for minimum wage in ickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America ... June 20 7 p.m. lecture by Barbara Ehrenreich at the Presbyterian Church of the Big Wood. (Wood River Journal, ID)
Writer made a quiet impact May 22, 2007
Markson was honored by the Academy for "exceptional accomplishment in any genre" along with Barbara Ehrenreich, William T. Vollmann, Joan Acocella and four other writers. Although he's achieved only limited commercial success, Markson has won critical acclaim and he's published eight literary novels, three crime novels, one book of criticism and a collection of poetry. (Albany Times Union)
Ehrenreich: Your Local News May 18, 2007
by Barbara Ehrenreich ... " But the magic has clearly been fading, starting two years ago when Reuters started outsourcing its Wall Street coverage to Bangalore. Is there nothing an actual, on-site, American cant do better than anyone else? In the Pasadena case, I cant even complain, as US-based Reuters workers did when their jobs were outsourced, that the quality of journalism will suffer as a result. One of the Indian reporters just hired by pasadenanow.com has a degree from the... (Zmag.org)
The collective smarts of a crowd surpass those of an expert any day May 10, 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich, in "Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy," detects a Puritan aversion to our "savage" and Dionysian natures. But in the rise of "carnivalized" concerts, street demonstrations and sporting events, she also sees the potential to "reclaim our distinctively human heritage as creatures who can generate their own ecstatic pleasures out of music, color, feasting, and dance.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
Let me be a bonobo May 10, 2007
Barbara EhrenreichThursday May 10, 2007 ... Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of Dancing in the Streets The Nation. (Guardian Unlimited -- Life)
A touch of class Apr 29, 2007
In Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America , US investigative journalist Barbara Ehrenreich quotes a worker at a home cleaning company who, referring to the mansions she cleans, says: "All I can think of is like, wow, I'd like to have this stuff one day. It motivates me, and I don't feel the slightest resentment because, you know, it's my goal to get where they are." ... Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America, by Barbara Ehrenreich. (The Age, Australia -- Features)
Our Broken Mental Health System Apr 21, 2007
News Before It's News. Last Updated: Apr 21st, 2007 - 09:24:24. (Ocnus.net)
Couch Entitlement: Apr 18, 2007
PAGE: 1Related in SlateIn 2004, Sara Mosle Barbara Ehrenreich and Caitlin Flanagan whether a woman would be morally consistent in advocating workplace gender equality while hiring a nanny. Meghan O'Rourke Linda Hirshman's utilitarian case against staying home, which Betty Friedan's later work. (Slate)
Dance with the devil Apr 7, 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich's Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy causes Simon Callow to mourn the passing of the time when human beings really knew how to let go ... Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich 240pp, Granta, 16 ... Why this should have happened, and what the consequences have been, are the matter of Barbara Ehrenreich's witty and quizzical new book, a follow-up to her devastating study of war, Blood Rites. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Where did all the good times go? Apr 2, 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich unpicks the causes of our unhappiness ... This is an edited extract from Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich, published by Granta at 16 ... Barbara Ehrenreich will be speaking with Geoff Dyer at London's ICA tonight (). (Guardian Unlimited)
Reality check Apr 1, 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich, journalist, social critic and author of "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America," said in a phone interview that in some ways, she doesn't believe much has changed with minimum wage issues in the past decade. "We've seen no improvement in the federal minimum wage and the improvement they're talking about, $7.25 an hour over two years, is pretty pathetic," Ehrenreich said. (Shoals TimesDaily)
Making time for good stories Mar 9, 2007
The most recent one, Pathologies of Hope by Barbara Ehrenreich, kept me up for a few hours, arguing with someone about it. Nick reminded me what I loved most about college time to think about ideas, to discuss them with teachers, to carve out your own philosophy as to who you are and what you believe in. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Class transit Mar 3, 2007
When social critic Barbara Ehrenreich (Cheri Valentine) has the idea for a journalist to research the experience of the working class by spending a month undercover living on a minimum-wage job, she doesn't think she's the right person for the assignment. know how hard it is. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
At Your Library Mar 1, 2007
In "Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy" author Barbara Ehrenreich draws on history and anthropology to uncover the origins of community revelry. "Bartlett's Words For the Wedding" presents the best phrases for creating your own vows, toasts to the happy couple, and perfect quotes for invitations and thank you notes. (Chetek Alert, WI)
Ehrenreich: Jet Blue Blues Mar 1, 2007
by Barbara Ehrenreich ... Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of 13 books, most recently "Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream.". (Zmag.org)
Letters to the Editor Feb 22, 2007
In "Nickeled and Dimed," for instance, Barbara Ehrenreich discusses how mentally and physically exhausting her job at Wal-Mart was and how much it taught her about the daily inequities facing lower-class American workers. If our usefulness at our future jobs depends on our prior experience, how is it that Mr. Smart expects us to be in the service of our nation if we have no idea "how the other half lives". (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
Auditions will be held at Southwestern Feb 18, 2007
Veteran performer Cheri Valentine plays author and noted social critic Barbara Ehrenreich, whose best-seller portrays her time as a member of the working poor. ickel and Dimed is considered a classic in exploring the reality of the working poor and a powerful analysis of gender and social class. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Author to speak Feb 15, 2007
Social commentator and author Barbara Ehrenreich -- whose best-selling expose "Nickel and Dimed" investigated the impact of welfare reform on the working poor -- has taken a lighter and less politically charged turn in her latest book, "Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy." Tonight at 7, the author will read from her new work at Politics Bookstore and Coffeehouse (5015 Connecticut Ave. NW). A book signing will follow the presentation. (Washington Times)
Male-killing Bacteria Makes Female Butterflies More Promiscuous Feb 8, 2007
A study at UCL (University College London) finds that a high-prevalence of male-killing bacteria active in many species of insect including the butterfly, actually increases female promiscuity and male fatigue. The study was carried out on Hypolimnas bolina butterflies in Pacific Island and South-East Asian populations. (Science Daily)
Fun of Dark Ages is needed today Feb 6, 2007
DANCING IN THE STREETS: A HISTORY OF COLLECTIVE JOY By Barbara Ehrenreich (Metropolitan Books, 336 pages, $26) ... Individuals have been getting down together since apes first swung in Africa, but it's collective ecstasy that interests Barbara Ehrenreich: dancing, feasting, costuming and general bonhomie. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)
FULL HIGHLIGHTS Feb 3, 2007
International House Global Voices Authors Night Series and the Co-op Seminary Bookstore present: Barbara Ehrenreich 6 p.m. Friday, Feb 9 1414 E. 59th St., Assembly Hall. Barbara Ehrenreich, author of The New York Times Bestseller Nickel and Dimed, will read from her book Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Surprising Transition Observed When Flowing Grains Become Too Jam Packed To Move Feb 3, 2007
Using color-shifting cylinders as substitutes for sand grains or coal lumps, a Duke University-led team of physicists has pinpointed a critical density level where granular materials suddenly cease flowing like a liquid and instead congeal into a state of rigidity. That magic moment -- described as a "jamming transition" -- is announced by a kind of phase change analogous to the freezing of water, the scientists showed in experiments. (Science Daily)
Area meetings and events Jan 23, 2007
Durham, Chapel Hill and the Research Triangle Region. Jan 22, 2007 : 11:47 pm ET. (Herald Sun)
Male Fish Turn To Cannibalism When Uncertain Of Paternity Jan 23, 2007
Following in the tradition of John Howard Griffin (Black Like Me) and Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed), Norah Vincent absorbed a cultural experience and reported back on what she observed. . (Science Daily)
Pelosi's crew and Osama bin Laden share common goal Jan 22, 2007
Leading leftists like Kurt Vonnegut, Toni Morrison, Barbara Ehrenreich, Katha Pollit, Jane Fonda, Spike Lee, Oliver Stone and others took out full-page newspaper ads to galvanize public opposition to Bush's planned invasion of Afghanistan. The left organized more than 100 rallies to stop this action. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Profile: Lapham's Indelible Mark on Harper's Jan 22, 2007
While there, he published such writers as Tom Wolfe, Barbara Ehrenreich and Christopher Hitchens. Under the left-leaning Lapham, some say Harper s has been unpredictable ideologically. (MediaWeek.com)
New life comes to once-gritty capital streets Jan 17, 2007
Busboys and Poets (2021 14th St. NW; 202/387-7638; lunch for two $27), is a caf, performance space and bookstore to a diverse clientele that favors the individual pizzas and well-pulled espressos as much as the readings by the likes of Barbara Ehrenreich and Amiri Baraka. On Sundays, the brunch crowd hits Crme (1322 U St. NW; 202/234-1884; brunch for two $25) for chef Terrell Danley's nouveau-soul cooking: think crispy fried chicken on fluffy Belgian waffles, doused with maple syrup. (CNN -- Travel)
'Dancing' out of step Jan 16, 2007
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective JoyBy Barbara EhrenreichMetropolitan, 320 pp ... Author Barbara Ehrenreich is on to something. (USA Today -- Life)
New & Recommended Jan 15, 2007
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective JoyBy Barbara Ehrenreich. A fascinating, quirky, and thought-provoking analysis of communal celebration. (Boston Globe)
Review: Dancing In The Streets Jan 13, 2007
By Barbara Ehrenreich ... Barbara Ehrenreich wants to affirm the value of ecstatic group celebration. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
More of this story Jan 13, 2007
On Tuesday, Jan. 16 at 7 p.m., Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy, discusses her tome with anthropologist, primatologist and Darwinian feminist Amy Parish, who teaches at USC On Wednesday, Jan. 17 at 7 p.m., screenwriter and New Yorker staffer Lawrence Wright presents the West Coast premiere of My Trip to Al-Qaeda: A Performance. The multimedia event will dramatize the writing process of his recent book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to... (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Dinesh D'Souza's Mullah Envy: Jan 12, 2007
D'Souza inflates Blum's importance by stating that in 2002 he "joined Jane Fonda, Barbara Ehrenreich, and a host of other prominent liberals in denouncing Bush's preparation for the invasion of Iraq." But D'Souza is no better able than anyone else to sketch a plausible link between 9/11 and the Iraq occupation save that Bin Laden opposes the latter. William F. Buckley the Iraq mission a failure. (Slate)
10 ways to keep your resolution to read more Jan 9, 2007
"Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy" by Barbara Ehrenreich (Metropolitan Books, $26). After capturing the collective despair of the working class in "Nickel and Dimed" and "Bait and Switch," journalist Ehrenreich goes to the other extreme. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Everybody dance now, and be less depressed Jan 8, 2007
By Barbara Ehrenreich ... As a follow-up of sorts to her book "Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War," in which she "explored the dark side of human collective excitement," Barbara Ehrenreich declares that she decided to examine "less destructive" kinds of human festivities: a study of "collective joy," which she defines loosely as the "largely ignored and perhaps incommunicable thrill of the group deliberately united in joy and exaltation.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
