Barbara Ehrenreich

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• Scientific American - Kool-Aid Psychology: Realism versus Optimism

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 142
  Theres much to like in the positive psychology movement, but its rejection of traditional therapeutic work is not one of them. I have had some serious issues with their whole ethos of focusing only on the positive, and Ive mentioned that here before. In this article, Michael Shermer (of The Skeptic) riffs on Barbara ...
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• Productivity Now! vs Frantic Job Searching

  
  United Professionals Blog — Authority: 117
  What has America lost besides jobs?Thousands of Americans are out of work. Have we lost something else besides our jobs?How many, and what kinds of, worthwhile projects are not getting done these days due to unemployment and underemployment? Have our all-consuming job searches or job-retention efforts kept us focused ...
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• Mayors Report Details Rise of Homelessness and New, Growing Tent Cities; Press Ignores or Glosses Over

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 823
  In a Washington Post opinion piece published on December 6, longtime expansionary entitlement program apologists Peter Edelman and Barbara Ehrenreich ripped into the 1996 welfare reform law and its alleged effect on the poor during the struggling economy of the past two years. In the course of their rant, Edelman ...
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• Cooper Manning

  
  Business and Technology — Authority: 140
  Cooper Manning Cooper Manning - : These were almost certainly the ocialist conferences at Cooper Union that Obama wrote of attending in his 1995 autobiography Dreams From My Father. Here is the introduction to the programme for the 1997 conference (emphasis added). Speakers at the 2005 conference included ...
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• What’s Wrong with Positive Thinking?

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 562
  I absolutely love this post that Tamar Chansky, Ph.D., wrote specifically for Beyond Blue ! You may remember her from another interview I did with her. She is a clinical psychologist, author of “Freeing Your Child From Negative Thinking” and other books, and a Huffington Post blogger. She’s an expert ...
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• I Dont Want To Be Fascinated by Kate Gosselin. Couldnt Sonya Sotomayor Make It?

  
  http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor — Authority: 619
  Im 100 percent with you, Jessica —Walters list is beyond lame, its shameful. Now, if shed called it "2009s Most Fascinating People Willing to Appear on My Television Special," it might make more sense, but even so, were not "fascinated" by Kate Gosselin or Jenny Sanford for reasons that ought to make anyone proud. ...
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• Barbara Walters "10 Most Fascinating People" List Is Not Fascinating

  
  The XX Factor — Authority: 140
  A post from DoubleX writer KJ DellAntonia: Im 100 percent with you, Jessica —Walters list is beyond lame, its shameful. Now, if shed called it "2009s Most Fascinating People Willing to Appear on My Television Special," it might make more sense, but even so, were not "fascinated" by Kate Gosselin or Jenny Sanford for ...
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• Did Positive Thinking Kill Your Career?

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 165
  Author Barbara Ehrenreich on how unbridled economic optimism may have cost you your job.
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• Award ceremony

  
  The Goat Rope — Authority: 125
  It is not the usual practice of this blog to issue awards, mostly because nobody cares what I think, but Im making an exception in this case. The first official Goat Rope Rock On With Your Bad Self Award --the highest award I have to bestow--goes to WV Senator Robert C. Byrd for having the guts to speak some truth ...
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• Is the Womens Health Amendment Worthwhile?

  
  http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor — Authority: 619
  Despite my dismay about the kerfluffle over delaying routine mammograms for women in their 40s, I was feeling OK about the womens health amendment to the health care legislation, which the Senate passed Thursday. Hey, its Sen. Barbara Mikulskis idea, and the gals from Maine are for it. Plus as Mikulski pointed ...
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• Barbara Ehrenreich, The Swine Flu Vaccine Screw-up

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 128
  Tom Dispatch posted 2009-11-03 16:27:36 Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich, Why Your Child May Not Get a Swine Flu Shot Soon This week, the Obama White House released a very partial record of those who had visited since January 20, 2009. This it hailed as “transparency like you’ve never seen it before” and ...
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• Has the "Pink-Ribbon Breast Cancer Cult" Blinded Us to Other Womens Health Issues?

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 142
  Author and breast cancer survivor Barbara Ehrenreich’s op-ed for Salon.com tackles the issue of feminism and “the pink-ribbon breast cancer cult,” she says isn’t helping women where they need it. “To some extent, pink-ribbon culture has replaced feminism as a focus of female identity and solidarity. ...
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• The Search For Perfection: Where Did Feminism Go Wrong?

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 784
  Filed under: Woman Up Well, ladies, I must say Ive been having a jolly old time here in London reading your takes on the Loh and Weil articles. On a day when my combined maternal/spousal duties left me thoroughly winded and already jonesing for that third espresso before 9 a.m., I take comfort in the fact ...
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• Nuff said

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 479
  (Taking context-optional note of thought-provoking quotes) What we dont need, no matter how pretty and pink, is a ladies auxiliary to the cancer-industrial complex. -- The final line of "We need a new womens health movement," a provocative Los Angeles Times op-ed by author Barbara Ehrenreich (left).
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• Quick 2009 primer

  
  Naptime Writing — Authority: 417
  Fascinating. Top 10 Stories You Missed in 2009 this year, as rated by Foreign Policy . Seriously, read it.  It’s relatively short and absolutely worth your time. A rare even-handed look at the conundrum in Afghanistan. And, finally, a look at how pink ribbons have completely dumbed down our knowledge of ...
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• The linkcetera you’ve been waiting for

  
  Norwegianity — Authority: 471
  Haaretz is excited . But not so excited they forgot to mention that Marc’s father was “released from federal prison last year after serving a nearly five-year sentence for wire and bank fraud.” Former Iowa Congressman Ed Mezvinsky’s sins, of course, should not be visited upon the son. But maybe someone ...
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• Blindfolded By A Pink Ribbon? Barbara Ehrenreich On Mammograms, Breast Cancer [Breast Intentions]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 802
  Barbara Ehrenreich asks , "has feminism been replaced by the pink-ribbon breast cancer cult?" In other words, are women so concerned with access to mammograms that theyre ignoring science and even their own rights? In an op-ed in Salon (which appears in slightly abbreviated form in the LA Times , Ehrenreich ...
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• “What we don’t need, no matter how pretty and pink, is a ladies’ auxiliary to the cancer-industrial complex.”

  
  The Awl — Authority: 774
  I’m not 100% on board with this Barbara Ehrenreich piece —I don’t know that I’d characterize the feminist response to the Stupak amendment as “muted” exactly—but she makes some excellent points about the troubling issues surrounding women’s health and the treatment of illness. Have a read.
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• The Odd Uses of Religion

  
  Just Above Sunset — Authority: 127
  Those of us who don’t find religion that compelling can still find it fascinating. People believe all sorts of things, and tell you that you should too. That’s kind of fun, in an anthropological way. For example, back in the fifties, a nicely scrubbed pair of Jehovah’s Witnesses might appear at your door on a ...
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• Book review: Barbara Ehrenreichs "Bright-Sided"

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 800
  Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America By Barbara Ehrenreich Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt: New York Hardcover, 256 pages, $12.42 October 2009 In the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century, positive thoughts were flowing out into the universe ...
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