Snarling Citizen

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ISBN: 9780374266486

ISBN-10: 0374266484

ISBN-13: 9780374266486

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Authors: Barbara Ehrenreich

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In this collection of essays, her first since the best-selling The Worst Years of Our Lives, Barbara Ehrenreich delves into the soul of the 1990s in search of the American zeitgeist after "The Decade of Greed". What she finds is a sour passivity. Only a homicidal car-rental spokesman or penis-severing small-town manicurist can induce a brief outbreak of giddiness. The youthful, pumped-up look has given way to menopause chic, and our biggest hope for a national health program is that it will provide coverage for Dr. Jack Kevorkian's services. Even channel surfing may have to be automated soon if the current listlessness continues.

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List price: $20.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 245
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of "Blood Rites"; "The Worst Years of Our Lives"; "Fear of Falling", which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, & eight other books. A frequent contributor to Time, Harper's, Esquire, The New Republic, Mirabella, The Nation, The New York Magazine, she lives near Key West, Florida.

Introduction	p. 3
Life in the Postmodern Family
Burt, Loni, and Our Way of Life	p. 13
Want a Child? Take My Son	p. 17
Cultural Baggage	p. 21
Housework Is Obsolescent	p. 25
The Wretched of the Hearth	p. 29
Sex and the Married Woman	p. 34
The Economics of Cloning	p. 38
Fun with Cults	p. 42
Oh, Those Family Values	p. 45
Body Issues
Why Don't We Like the Human Body?	p. 51
Stamping Out a Dread Scourge	p. 55
The Naked Truth about Fitness	p. 59
So's Your Old Lady	p. 65
A New Boom to Die For	p. 68
Coming of Age	p. 71
Sex Skirmishes and Gender Wars
Women Would Have Known	p. 79
Feminism Confronts Bobbittry	p. 83
Sorry, Sisters, This Is Not the Revolution	p. 87
What Do Women Have to Celebrate?	p. 91
Making Sense of la difference	p. 97
Kiss Me, I'm Gay	p. 100
In the Realm of the Spectacle
The Decline of the Universe	p. 107
Prewatched TV	p. 110
Blood on the Temple Steps	p. 113
Gone with the Wind	p. 116
Readers' Block	p. 119
Camelot Redux	p. 122
Star Power	p. 126
Won't Somebody Do Something Silly?	p. 129
The Blight of the Living Dead	p. 133
Paying Attention to O.J.	p. 136
The Triumph of Trash	p. 139
The Snarling Citizen
Teach Diversity--with a Smile	p. 145
Down to the Fundamentals	p. 149
Why the Religious Right Is Wrong	p. 152
Maintaining the Crime Supply	p. 156
Why Do They Keep Coming?	p. 160
Tired and Out of Compassion	p. 163
We're Number One!	p. 166
Onward, Christian Lite!	p. 169
Kicking the Big One	p. 173
Trampling on the Down-and-out
Welfare: A White Secret	p. 179
S-M as Public Policy	p. 183
How Labor's Love Was Lost	p. 187
An Epidemic of Munchausen's Syndrome	p. 190
Real Babies, Illegitimate Debates	p. 193
Honor to the Working Stiffs	p. 197
Fear of Easter	p. 201
Clash of the Titans
The Warrior Culture	p. 207
Who's on Main Street?	p. 211
Gulf War II	p. 221
Somalia--the Ratings War	p. 224
Battlin' Bill's Initiation Rite	p. 227
Willy/Woody	p. 231
Jones v. Clinton	p. 235
Haiti Explained	p. 238
Tale of a Whale	p. 241
Acknowledgments	p. 243
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