FYI Review - This book contains the following essays:
INTRODUCTION
HAVES AND HAVES-NOT
-Nickel-and-Damned: On (Not) Getting By in America
-How You Can Save Wall Street
-S&M As Public Policy
-Going to Extremes: CEOs vs. Slaves
-Are Illegal Immigrants the Problem?
-What's So Great about Gated Communities?
-Is it Now a Crime to Be Poor?
-A Homespun Safety Net
-Dead, White, and Blue: The Great Die-Off of America's Blue-Collar White People
HEALTH
-Welcome to Cancerland
-The Naked Truth about Fitness
-Got Grease?
-Our Broken Mental Health System
-Liposuction: The Key to Energy Independence
-The Selfish Side of Gratitude
MEN
-How "Natural" Is Rape?
-The Warrior Culture
-At Last, a New Man
-Patriarchy Deflated
WOMEN
-A Women Getting Sadder? Or Are We All Just Getting a Lot More Gullible?
-Our Neighborhood Porn Committee
-Strategies of Corporate Women
-What Abu Ghraid Taught Me
-Making Sense of la Difference
-Outclassed: Sexual Harassment
GOD, SCIENCE, AND JOY
-Mind Your Own Business
-The Animal Cure
-The Missionary Position
-The New Creationism: Biology under Attack
-Up Close at Trinidad's Carnival
-The Humanoid Stain
BOURGEOIS BLUNDERS
-Family Values
-The Cult of Busyness
-Death of a Yuppie Dream
-The Unbearable Being of Whiteness
-Welcome to Fleece U
-Prewatched TV
-The Recession's Race Divide
-Divisions of Labor
-Throw Them Out with the Trush: Why Homelessness is Becoming an Occupy Wall Street Issue

There are not many writers who can put our lives in perspective in an engaging read like Barbara Ehrenrich ( )

A collection of Ehrenreich's essays published throughout her life. Many from the 80s and 90s remain remarkably relevant in our current political climate.