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| 1. |  | Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America from Holt Paperbacks Price: $10.53 Customer Review:  Barbara Ehrenreich decided to see what it was like to see the underside of the American Dream by working a number of lower paying jobs in America. I read this book about two years ago and it is still with me, I have started leaving money for the people who clean my hotel rooms, and otherwise trying... |
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| 2. |  | Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America from Holt Paperbacks Price: $11.20 Customer Review:  Many of us have worked at jobs that barely paid the bills, and paid us much less than we considered we were worth. An increasing number of people live lives dependent on such jobs. How does one make it in a country where the rents, food costs, transportation costs and health care costs routinely... |
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| 3. |  | This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation from Metropolitan Books Price: $16.32 Customer Review: This collection of brief observations is pithy and to the point, and each one takes just a few minutes to read. But you should read slowly because otherwise the sudden rise in blood pressure they elicit may be harmful to your health. As I'm writing this, the economic collapses of late September are... |
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| 4. |  | Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream from Holt Paperbacks Price: $5.49 Customer Review:  Wow, was this book a disappointment! The premise was good and it might have been an interesting read if the author had any clue about what she was writing about, but her condescending attitude about the people she was interacting with made her seem like a total jerk, lacking empathy and... |
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| 5. |  | Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy from Holt Paperbacks Price: $10.88 Customer Review:  Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, Metropolitan Books, Holt & Co, 2002. Most of us are well aware of the patterns of illegal immigration which bring numerous undocumented workers to the US and other... |
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| 6. |  | Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Glass Mountain Pamphlets) from The Feminist Press at CUNY Price: $6.95 Customer Review: This pamphlet gives an excellent overview of the oppression of women healers and women in general at the hands of the church and the medical establishment. A must read for anyone interested in medical history, feminism and anti-oppression work. |
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| 7. |  | Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy from Metropolitan Books Price: $17.16 Customer Review: I found this book fascinating as it gave me a new way to frame history through looking at the power of collective joy. While reading it, I vowed to attend our neighborhood 4th of July parade - just because my kids are grown doesn't mean I can't celebrate with my decorated bike or dog. I am also... |
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| 8. |  | Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy from Holt Paperbacks Price: $10.88 Customer Review: This book explains how and why our western European culture (among others) systematically represses our natural human inclination to cut loose and enjoy ourselves, and why it is so important for our emotional and political well-being that we continue to do so! Very thorough in explanations and... |
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| 9. |  | The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment from Anchor Price: $12.55 Customer Review: For men who think that feminism is a threat to the male sex, this book will open eyes and minds in the same way abolition liberated white slave-owners from their barbaric addiction to controlling other human beings against their will. And for women who see feminism as a threat to families, this book... |
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| 10. |  | For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women from Anchor Price: $10.17 Customer Review: These are not "New Ideas" This is neither "provocative" nor "controversial" Those are bogus words intended to distance oneself from reality. The book is REAL - any woman who has not been singled out for patronizing advice is lucky indeed or is living in a fools paradise. "Helpful... |
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| 11. |  | Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War from Holt Paperbacks Price: $12.75 Customer Review: The passions of war are just waiting to be triggered. Are you prepared to fight your emotional programming instead of for your nation? Any deep investigation of war needs to go into what we are, where we have evolved from, and the history of war and its cultural growth. The book has a good style and... |
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| 12. | [no image] | One of the Guys: Women as Aggressors and Torturers from Seal Press Price: $4.99 Customer Review: If you are open to honest evaluations of the so-called "few bad apples," then you'll find this book worth reading. The anthology opens with an essay by Barbara Ehrenriech, where she admits her shock that women were torturers. Her essay drips with essentialist tendencies, yet I think many would... |
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| 13. |  | Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class from Perennial Customer Review: I came across Barbara Ehrenreich's books by chance through an assignment for a course by a professor. The first book was "Nickel and Dimed", and found it thought-provoking, especially being a single mother and being there. This book shows the that the middle class is shrinking-now, in today's... |
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| 14. |  | Male Fantasies, Vol. 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History (Theory and History of Literature, Vol. 22) (Theory and History of Literature) from University of Minnesota Press Price: $23.85 Customer Review: Male Fantasies is a book I wish many, many people would read. The writing is long-winded, the author's ideas are sometimes (in Volume II) flaky, but the content of the book is too good for this to matter. Theweleit studies the art and literature of a particular group of men--the Freikorps--who were... |
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| 15. |  | Re-Making Love: The Feminization Of Sex from Anchor Price: $13.50 | |
| 16. | [no image] | Nickel And Dimed - On (not) Getting By In America from Metropolitan/Owl/Henry Holt Customer Review: This is a well-written, interesting, anecdotal book about a well-educated woman's sojourn among the working poor. If only the author had stopped there, the book still would have been a hit. Instead, the author chose to claim it to be representative undercover reportage. Unfortunately, she does not... |
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| 17. | [no image] | Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America from Metropolitan Books Customer Review: Nickeled and Dimed has an interesting premise: an upper middle class woman tries to live on wages of an unskilled jobs in three different locations in the US. Here Ehrenreich describes her experiences doing just that and tries to relate these experiences to a larger frame of reference by laying out... |
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| 18. |  | Lost Ground: Welfare Reform, Poverty, and Beyond from South End Press Price: $18.00 Customer Review: Compilation of many writers' summations of America's welfare policies and attitudes over the years, and how the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 adversely affected the poorest in our country. Very informative, but bogs down in the middle as several narratives are rather redundant. Be sure to read the last... |
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| 19. |  | For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women from Anchor Customer Review: This book offers insight into our everyday lives - turned and twisted, yet redily accepted without questions. Very detailed and informative, the authors provide us with an objective historic prospective coupled with a passionate rhetoric of disbelief. Read it! Learn from it! |
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| 20. |  | Bait And Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream from Metropolitan Books Customer Review: I had read "Nickle'd and Dime'd" when I picked up this book and was looking forward to a book that might or might not be up to the remarkable first one. I was surprised (and thrilled) to find that "Bait and Switch" was as good - if not better - than the (very sad) previous work. I love, love, love... |
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| 21. |  | Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness (Glass Mountain Pamphlet) from The Feminist Press at CUNY Price: $6.95 Customer Review: I'm fairly stunned at the two two-star reviews here. This book was co-authored by Barbara Ehrenreich who went on to write several other WONDERFUL books, such as "Nickel and Dimed" and "For Her Own Good." "Complaints and Disorders; The Sexual Politics of Sickness" is a short book (95 pages) but... |
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| 22. | [no image] | The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed from Harpercollins Customer Review: I love essays, collections of essays (particularly humorous essays), essayists (particularly humorous essayists), and irreverence toward everything including self. In other words, I love Barbara Ehrenreich as I love Molly Ivins, happily grinning and genuflecting in obeisance to their talent and... |
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| 23. |  | Women in the Global Factory (Inc Pamphlet) from South End Press Price: $6.00 Customer Review: I first read this book (original printing) as a college student for a class on the social situation in developing countries. This book is excellent. While brief, it gives an excellent introduction into the working conditions of women in sweatshops. Many black and white photos. While the book is... |
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| 24. |  | Power Trip (Open Media Series) from Seven Stories Press Price: $14.95 Customer Review: I found this book to be extremely useful in todays world of preemption, "axis of evil" and Bush's cowboy antics. I feel that it should be obvious to anyone with half a brain that what Busha nd his cronies are doing isnt in the best interest of anyone except maybe Bush, Cheney and the stock holders... |
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| 25. | [no image] | Poverty in the American Dream: Women & Children First (Inc Pamphlet) from South End Press Price: $6.50 | |
| 26. |  | The Snarling Citizen: Essays from Harper Perennial | |
| 27. |  | Abu Ghraib: The Politics of Torture (The Terra Nova Series) from North Atlantic Books Price: $9.95 Customer Review: These group of essays methodically and from a variety of view points attempt to show just how damaging the infamous photos and the acts of depravity they have exposed are. The book also explores the collective conscience and political climate that has existed in order for such unbelievable and... |
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| 28. | [no image] | Witches , Midwives , And Nurses A History Of Women Healers from The Feminist Press | |
| 29. |  | The Snarling Citizen from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $21.00 Customer Review: I bought this book of essays while I was spending a lonely summer in Paris (I don't travel well), and it helped keep me very amused through a few days of repeated browsing. Ehrenreich is a brilliant leftist critic of our complacent bourgeois culture. She's also ... funny and sharp. She doesn't... |
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| 30. |  | It's the Media, Stupid from Open Media Customer Review: Ever wonder why the rightwing fascists and fake liberals in both parties get away with destroying America? It's the media, stupid ! Yes, some rightwing lunatics will cry "Liberal media" while others will cry "conservative/corporate media" but folks, the media is nothing more than a puppet for... |
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