RIP Barbara Ehrenreich

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Anonymous wrote:That was a good book. But her name is not a household name.

Probably depends on your household, don't you think?

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I was sad to see she’s passed - I’d read her a lot in college especially in The Nation and I read Nickle and Dimed. Admire just about everything about her and have put some more of her books on my to be read list for the coming months.

She wrote a good piece in the NYT in 2004 about women needing to speak up for abortion. It was prescient and now more timely than ever - we all need to start owning up to our abortions and standing up for ours and our daughters’ rights.

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/22/opinion/owning-up-to-abortion.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

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Excellent writer on important topics. I’m grateful to her for her work.

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Anonymous wrote:Her critique of the pink ribbon culture after going through breast cancer was thought provoking. If I recall correctly she also decided after 70 she'd had enough of being poked and prodded by doctors having reached a good enough age. Great writer.

Agree. She had quite a "nose" for suss ng out problematic trends and ideologies that are so common and internalized to be overlooked.

I sent DH her obit and I basically never do that. But I'm also Gen X so clearly we have a soft spot for BE.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That was a good book. But her name is not a household name.

Probably depends on your age and education or media consumption. For Gen Xers who were in college in the 90s, she was very well known. Anyone who listened to NPR in the 90s would have known her work, I think.

If you aren't familiar with her, read this brief autobiographical sketch she wrote for her website:

https://www.barbaraehrenreich.com/landing-page/barbara-ehrenreich-about/

That is basically the best bio I've read. Lovely! Thanks for the link.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That was a good book. But her name is not a household name.

Probably depends on your age and education or media consumption. For Gen Xers who were in college in the 90s, she was very well known. Anyone who listened to NPR in the 90s would have known her work, I think.

+1 I'm 10 yrs younger than that but heard a ton about her and that book