Barbara Ehrenreich has died: "love one another, and fight like hell"

 

Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of more than 20 books on social justice themes ranging from women’s rights to inequality and the inequities of the American healthcare system, has died at the age of 81. (August 26, 1941, September 1, 2022)

The news that Ehrenreich had died on 1 September was released by her son, Ben Ehrenreich, on Friday. He accompanied the announcement with a comment redolent of his mother’s spirit: “She was never much for thoughts and prayers, but you can honor her memory by loving one another, and by fighting like hell.”

Ehrenreich battled over a half a century as a writer committed to resisting injustice and giving a voice to those who were typically unheard.

• The Uptake, Storage, and Intracellular Hydrolysis of Carbohydrates by Macrophages (with Zanvil A. Cohn) (1969)
• Long March, Short Spring: The Student Uprising at Home and Abroad (with John Ehrenreich) (1969)
• The American Health Empire: Power, Profits, and Politics (with John Ehrenreich and Health PAC) (1971)
• Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (with Deirdre English) (1972)
• Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness (with Deirdre English) (1973)
• For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women (with Deirdre English) (1978)
• Women in the Global Factory (1983)
• The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment (1983)
• Re-Making Love: The Feminization of Sex (with Elizabeth Hess and Gloria Jacobs) (1986)
• The Mean Season (with Fred L. Block, Richard A. Cloward, and Frances Fox Piven) (1987)
• Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class (1989)
• The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed (1990)
• The Snarling Citizen: Essays (1995)
• Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War (1997)
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America (2001)
• Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy (ed., with Arlie Hochschild) (2003)
• Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream (2005)
• Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy (2007)
• Ehrenreich, Barbara (2008). This land is their land : reports from a divided nation. New York: Metropolitan Books. 
• Ehrenreich, Barbara (2009). Bright-sided : how the relentless promotion of positive thinking has undermined America. New York: Metropolitan Books.. (UK: Smile Or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World)
• Ehrenreich, Barbara (2014). Living with a wild God : a nonbeliever's search for the truth about everything. New York: Twelve.
• Ehrenreich, Barbara (2018). Natural causes : an epidemic of wellness, the certainty of dying, and killing ourselves to live longer. New York: Twelve..
• Ehrenreich, Barbara (2020). Had I Known-Collected Essays. New York: Twelve.