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A Touch of Class
Henkin, J. | November 20, 1989 issue

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The article provides information on the book "Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class," by Barbara Ehrenreich. Most books that make sweeping assertions about American culture, Barbara Ehrenreich argues, are really only about the middle class. "Fear of Falling" is an attempt to demythologize the professional middle class, to portray it as it is: one class among several, with its own interests, fears and obsessions. But the book is not simply an exercise in cultural anthropology. According to Ehrenreich, the middle class is preoccupied with the fear of growing soft, of losing discipline, of submitting to "the imperatives of consumption, the tyranny of affluence."

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FEAR of Falling (Book); EHRENREICH, Barbara; BOOKS; CULTURE; SOCIAL classes; UNITED States
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