TY - BOOK AU - Ehrenreich,Barbara TI - Had I known: collected essays SN - 9781455543670 PY - 2020///] CY - New York PB - Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing KW - Social problems KW - United States KW - Social conditions KW - 1980- KW - Essays KW - lcgft N1 - Includes index; Introduction; Haves and Have-nots; Nickel-and-dimed: 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; Are women getting sadder? Or are we all just getting a lot more gullible?; Our neighborhood porn committee; Strategies of corporate women; What Abu Ghraib taught me; Making sense of la différence; Outclassed: sexual harassment (with Alissa Quart); God, Science, and Joy; Mind your own business; The animal cure; The missionary position; The new creationism: biology under attack (with Janet McIntosh); Up close at Trinidad's carnival; Bourgeois blunders; Family values; The cult of busyness; Death of a Yuppie dream (with John Ehrenreich); The unbearable being of whiteness; Is the middle class doomed?; Welcome to Fleece U.; Prewatched TV; The recession's racial divide (with Dedrick Muhammad); Divisions of labor; Throw them out with the trash: Why homelessness is becoming an Occupy Wall Street issue N2 - "A collection of articles and excerpts from Barbara Ehrenreich's long-ranging career that highlight her social consciousness and wry wit." -- ER -