A cultural analyst and political activist, Barbara Ehrenreich is arguably one of the most astute, acerbic and witty critics in the United States. She belongs to the generation of feminists who came to...
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In the following review, Edelson praises The American Health Empire as an innovative look at the problems with health care in America, although he finds some flaws in the authors' presentation....
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In the following essay, Marien praises Ehrenreich's perception and compassion in Fear of Falling.
The recent death of Michael Harrington was taken by many to symbolize the end of socialist infl...
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Although critical of several of Ehrenreich's conclusions, in the following review, Henkin finds much to like in Fear of Falling.
Most books that make sweeping assertions about American culture,...
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While praising Ehrenreich's writing, in the following review, McClay finds many flaws in the thesis of Fear of Falling.
The debacle of the 1988 presidential election not only left the very word...
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In the following excerpt, Fallows examines the correlation among culture, prosperity, and security and their place in Fear of Falling.
Economists don't like to talk about the effects of culture...
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In the following essay, Kakutani negatively reviews Kipper's Game.
It's no surprise that science-fiction and futuristic novels are a favorite forum for social critics: after all, they pr...
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In the following interview, Ehrenreich discusses the writing of her first fiction book.
"I feel like a criminal," says Barbara Ehrenreich. "I didn't mean to do it!" ...
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Below, Kellman offers a mixed review of Kipper's Game.
"When a scholar of John Kenneth Galbraith's immense sagacity has a tale to tell, it is time to put away our toys, sit quietl...
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In the following review, Hutchings provides a summary of the plot elements in Kipper's Game.
Like the famous trick with mirrors, this book endlessly repeats itself in different sizes. The leitm...
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In the following review, Mesic compares the essay styles of Ehrenreich and Joseph Epstein.
Other than a review, these two collections of essays by Joseph Epstein and Barbara Ehrenreich deserve somethi...
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In the following review, Ferguson suggests that Ehrenreich's writing is rife with factoids and faulty syllogisms.
Barbara Ehrenreich's career as a journalist has followed an interesting ...
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In the following review, Gitlin praises the insights and synthesis of divergent cultural icons in The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment.
If the specter that haunts the Amer...
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Below, the reviewer describes Blood Rites as an iconoclastic study in which social commentator and Time essayist Ehrenreich challenges accepted notions of why human beings wage war.
In her tenth book ...
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In the following review of The Hearts of Men, Tavris finds Ehrenreich's analysis of male/female role dynamics insightful, but criticizes her conclusions about cause and effect.
Over the past tw...
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In the following excerpt, Barber summarizes developments in the Feminist Movement that he describes as anti-women and then discusses Ehrenreich's The Hearts of Men as a fresh perspective on the...
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In the following review, Rose compares the opposite philosophies expressed in the books Re-Making Love and Willard Gayling's Rediscovering Love.
"Higgimus, hoggimus, men are monogamous. ...
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In the following review, Viorst praises Re-Making Love.
It was women—it wasn't men—whose sexual attitudes and behavior drastically changed within the past two decades. The sexual ...
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In the following review, Abraham finds the source material in Re-Making Love too superficial, and the resultant conclusions over-generalized.
Singles in the cities, paraphilias in the suburbs and sex ...
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Below, Dick gives a negative review of Re-Making Love.
In 1964, when we were nine, my best friend and I played a secret game, enacting elaborate adventures in which we would take turns to be Paul McCa...
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In the following review, Morley praises the insights in Fear of Falling.
I was a teen-age neoconservative, I came of age politically in the 1970's with a low tolerance for the foibles of my par...
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Barbara Ehrenreich would make a bad representative of the working poor because she lacks three major things that a woman of that class would actually possess. Ehrenreich doesn't meet the true...
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Barbara Ehrenreich
