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“Barbara's Blog”的内容更新

累计：46 篇（自 2007-09-04 起）

更新：约10篇/年，最后更新194 天前

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Nickel and Dimed (2011 Version)

on turning poverty into an american crime by barbara ehrenreichi completed the manuscript for nickel and dimed in a time of seemingly boundless prosperity. technology innovators and venture capitalists were acquiring sudden fortunes, buying up mcmansions like the ones i had cleaned in maine and much larger. even secretaries in some hi-tech firms were st... (194 天前)

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War Without Humans: Modern Blood Rites Revisited

for a book about the all-too-human “passions of war,” my 1997 work blood rites ended on a strangely inhuman note: i suggested that, whatever distinctly human qualities war calls upon -- honor, courage, solidarity, cruelty, and so forth -- it might be useful to stop thinking of war in exclusively human terms.  after all, certain species of ants wage wa... (222 天前)

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Not So Pretty in Pink: The Uproar Over New Breast Ca

has feminism been replaced by the pink-ribbon breastcancer cult? when the house of representatives passed the stupakamendment, which would take abortion rights away even from women whohave private insurance, the female response ranged from muted toinaudible. a few weeks later, when the united states preventive services taskforce recommended that reg... (317 天前)

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The Swine Flu Vaccine Screw-up

optimism as a public health problemby barbara ehrenreichif you can't find any swine flu vaccine for your kids, it won't be fora lack of positive thinking. in fact, the whole flu snafu is beingblamed on "undue optimism" on the part of both the obama administrationand big pharma. optimism is supposed to be good for our health. according to theacadem... (317 天前)

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Are Women Getting Sadder?

or are we all just getting a lot more gullible?by barbara ehrenreichfeminism made women miserable. this, anyway, seems to be the mostpopular takeaway from "the paradox of declining female happiness," a recent study by betsey stevenson and justin wolfers which purports to show that women have become steadily unhappier since 1972. maureen dowd and arian... (317 天前)

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The Destruction of the Black Middle Class

barbara ehrenreich and dedrick muhammedto judge from most of the commentary on the gates-crowley affair, you would think that a "black elite" has gotten dangerously out of hand. first gates (cambridge, yale, harvard) showed insufficient deference to crowley, then obama (occidental, harvard) piled on to accuse the police of having acted "stupidly." was ... (317 天前)

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Too Poor to Make the News

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/opinion/14ehrenreich.html?pagewanted=allthe human side of the recession, in the new media genre that's been called "recession porn," is the story of an incremental descent from excess to frugality, from ease to austerity. the super-rich give up their personal jets; the upper middle class cut back on private pilates class... (317 天前)

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