BARBARA EHRENREICH is a political essayist, social critic, and author or co-author of twelve books, including For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women (Anchor) and Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War (Henry Holt). She has written for Ms., Harper's, the Nation, the Progressive, the New Republic, Atlantic Monthly, and the New York Times Magazine. She lives and writes near Key West, Florida.

Cleaned Out

by Barbara Ehrenreich, January 2003 (Issue 325)