WRITER

Barbara Ehrenreich

1941 - 2022

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Barbara Ehrenreich (, AIR-ən-rike; née Alexander; August 26, 1941 – September 1, 2022) was an American author and political activist. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She was a widely read and award-winning columnist and essayist and the author of 21 books. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barbara Ehrenreich has received more than 961,250 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Barbara Ehrenreich is the 5,575th most popular writer (down from 5,211th in 2019), the 8,338th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,139th in 2019) and the 645th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 960k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Bait and Switch
Arbeidsmobiliteit, Mobilité descendante (Sciences sociales), White collar workers
2005
The hearts of men
Sex role, Men, Psychology
1983
Nickel and Dimed
Poor, Poverty, Working poor
The author's experience holding low-wage jobs in three parts of the U.S. in the late 1990s.
2001
Dancing in the Streets
Fasts and feasts, Collective behavior, Festivals
"Cultural historian Ehrenreich explores a human impulse that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. She uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. Although 16th-century Europeans viewed mass festivities as foreign and "savage," Ehrenreich shows that they were indigenous to the West, from the ancient Greeks to medieval Christianity. Ultimately, church officials drove the festivities into the streets, Protestants criminalized carnival, Wahhabist Muslims battled ecstatic Sufism, European colonizers wiped out native dance rites. The elites' fear that such gatherings would undermine social hierarchies was justified: the festive tradition inspired uprisings and revolutions from France to the Caribbean to the American plains. Yet outbreaks of group revelry persist, as Ehrenreich shows, pointing to the 1960s rock-and-roll rebellion and the more recent "carnivalization" of sports.--From publisher description."--From source other than the Library of Congress
2007
For her own good
History, Maternal and infant welfare, Medical ethics
1978
Blood rites
War, Psychological aspects of War, Psychological aspects
1997

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Barbara Ehrenreich ranks 5,575 out of 7,302. Before her are Hendrik Marsman, Susanna Clarke, Diomidis Kyriakos, Michio Mado, Albert Salvadó, and Ferenc Móra. After her are Steven Millhauser, Vladimir Bogomolov, Guus Kuijer, Mikhail Svetlov, Francis Carco, and Zofka Kveder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Barbara Ehrenreich ranks 495. Before her are Colin Higgins, Aaron Neville, Liese Prokop, Graciela Borges, Hans-Georg Reimann, and Laisenia Qarase. After her are Kálmán Ihász, Torgeir Brandtzæg, Théoneste Bagosora, Peter Sarstedt, Hans Eichel, and Dan Coe. Among people deceased in 2022, Barbara Ehrenreich ranks 449. Before her are Maxi Jazz, Carmen Herrera, Harm Ottenbros, Vladimir Makei, Txetxu Rojo, and Eugenio Scalfari. After her are Ana Derșidan-Ene-Pascu, Miodrag Ješić, Barbara Thompson, Galina Shamrai, Pietro Citati, and Leslie Jordan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Barbara Ehrenreich ranks 8,338 out of 20,380. Before her are Sidney Blackmer (1895), Richard Mulligan (1932), Debra Hill (1950), Ray Allen (1975), Frankie Lymon (1942), and Hugh Latimer Dryden (1898). After her are Tom M. Apostol (1923), MrBeast (1998), Steven Millhauser (1943), Vince Gallagher (1899), Eric Trump (1984), and Thomas Watson Jr. (1914).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Barbara Ehrenreich ranks 645. Before her are Kenneth Burke (1897), John Esposito (1940), Tom Robbins (1932), Grace Paley (1922), Larry McMurtry (1936), and Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884). After her are Steven Millhauser (1943), Madeleine L'Engle (1918), Marilyn Ferguson (1938), Whittaker Chambers (1901), L. J. Smith (1965), and James C. Collins (1958).

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