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Snarling Citizen Essays

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ISBN-10: 0374527679

ISBN-13: 9780374527679

Edition: N/A

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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Book details

List price: $21.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 6/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 245
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
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
Life in the Postmodern Family
Burt, Loni, and Our Way of Life
Want a Child? Take My Son
Cultural Baggage
Housework Is Obsolescent
The Wretched of the Hearth
Sex and the Married Woman
The Economics of Cloning
Fun with Cults
Oh, Those Family Values
Body Issues
Why Don't We Like the Human Body?
Stamping Out a Dread Scourge
The Naked Truth about Fitness
So's Your Old Lady
A New Boom to Die For
Coming of Age
Sex Skirmishes and Gender Wars
Women Would Have Known
Feminism Confronts Bobbittry
Sorry, Sisters, This Is Not the Revolution
What Do Women Have to Celebrate?
Making Sense of la difference
Kiss Me, I'm Gay
In the Realm of the Spectacle
The Decline of the Universe
Prewatched TV
Blood on the Temple Steps
Gone with the Wind
Readers' Block
Camelot Redux
Star Power
Won't Somebody Do Something Silly?
The Blight of the Living Dead
Paying Attention to O.J.
The Triumph of Trash
The Snarling Citizen
Teach Diversity--with a Smile
Down to the Fundamentals
Why the Religious Right Is Wrong
Maintaining the Crime Supply
Why Do They Keep Coming?
Tired and Out of Compassion
We're Number One!
Onward, Christian Lite!
Kicking the Big One
Trampling on the Down-and-out
Welfare: A White Secret
S-M as Public Policy
How Labor's Love Was Lost
An Epidemic of Munchausen's Syndrome
Real Babies, Illegitimate Debates
Honor to the Working Stiffs
Fear of Easter
Clash of the Titans
The Warrior Culture
Who's on Main Street?
Gulf War II
Somalia--the Ratings War
Battlin' Bill's Initiation Rite
Willy/Woody
Jones v. Clinton
Haiti Explained
Tale of a Whale
Acknowledgments