Editing Barbara Ehrenreich (section)

== Personal life and family ==
Ehrenreich had one brother, Ben Alexander Jr., and one sister, Diane Alexander. When she was 35, according to the book ''Always Too Soon: Voices of Support for Those Who Have Lost Both Parents'', her mother died "from a likely suicide".<ref name=GilbertKline2006p269>{{cite book |editor1-last=Gilbert |editor1-first=Allison |editor2-first=Christina Baker |editor2-last=Kline |title=Always Too Soon: Voices of Support for Those Who Have Lost Both Parents |year=2006 |publisher=Seal Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/alwaystoosoonvoi00gilb/page/269 269] |url=https://archive.org/details/alwaystoosoonvoi00gilb |url-access=registration |isbn=978-1-58005-176-7}}</ref> Her father died years later from [[Alzheimer's disease]].<ref name=GilbertKline2006p269 />

Ehrenreich was married and divorced twice. She met her first husband, [[John Ehrenreich]], during an [[Peace movement|anti-war activism]] campaign in [[New York City]], and they married in 1966. He is a [[clinical psychologist]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Bitters and Cream (personal site)|url=http://www.bittersandcream.com/index.php?p=1_4_About-Me|publisher=John Ehrenreich|access-date=May 9, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110910174121/http://www.bittersandcream.com/index.php?p=1_4_About-Me|archive-date=September 10, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> and they co-wrote several books about [[health policy]] and labor issues before divorcing in 1977. In 1983, she married Gary Stevenson, a [[trade union|union]] organizer for the [[International Brotherhood of Teamsters|Teamsters]].<ref name="Edwards"/> She divorced Stevenson in 1993.<ref name="oasis.lib.harvard.edu"/>

Ehrenreich had two children with her first husband. Her daughter [[Rosa Brooks|Rosa]], born in 1970, was named after a great-grandmother and [[Rosa Luxemburg]].<ref name="Sherman">{{cite news|last=Sherman|first=Scott|title=Class Warrior: Barbara Ehrenreich's Singular Crusade|url=https://groups.yahoo.com/group/DemocraticLeft/message/11149|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130209185151/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DemocraticLeft/message/11149|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 9, 2013|access-date=May 9, 2011|newspaper=Columbia Journalism Review|date=June 2003}}</ref> She is a Virginia-based law professor, [[national security]] and [[foreign policy]] expert and writer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/author/RosaBrooks|work=[[Foreign Policy]] |title=Rosa Brooks |access-date=May 12, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821121831/https://foreignpolicy.com/author/RosaBrooks |archive-date=August 21, 2012}}</ref> Ehrenreich's son [[Ben Ehrenreich|Ben]], born in 1972, is a novelist and a journalist in [[Los Angeles]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/ben-ehrenreich-david-grann-new-yorker-gq-atlantic-2011-5|title=Meet The Los Angeles Writer Who Beat The New Yorker, GQ, And The Atlantic|work=Business Insider|access-date=March 22, 2017|language=en}}</ref>

Ehrenreich was diagnosed with [[breast cancer]] shortly after the release of her book ''[[Nickel and Dimed|Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America]]''. This led to the award-winning article "Welcome to Cancerland," published in the November 2001 issue of ''[[Harper's Magazine]]''. The piece inspired the 2011 documentary ''[[Pink Ribbons, Inc.]]''<ref name=ctvcp>{{cite news|last=Szklarski|first=Cassandra|title=NFB doc examines the politics of marketing disease|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/nfb-doc-examines-the-politics-of-marketing-disease-1.761701|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130101025754/http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Entertainment/20120131/nfb-breast-cancer-documentary-120131/|url-status=live|archive-date=January 1, 2013|access-date=January 31, 2012|newspaper=[[CTV News]]|date=January 31, 2012|agency=[[Canadian Press]]}}</ref>

Ehrenreich lived in [[Alexandria, Virginia]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Ehrenreich|first=Barbara|title=Huffington Post Biography|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-ehrenreich|access-date=May 8, 2011|work=The Huffington Post}}</ref> where she died at a hospice facility on September 1, 2022, from a stroke, six days after her 81st birthday.<ref name=Schachar /> Her ''[[New York Times]]'' obituary called her an  "Explorer of Prosperity's Dark Side" for her commentary of <!--Disambiguation on purpose-->[[Inequality in the United States (disambiguation)|inequality in the United States]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dreier |first=Peter |date=September 7, 2022 |title=Barbara Ehrenreich Made Socialist Ideas Sound Like Common Sense |url=https://jacobin.com/2022/09/barbara-ehrenreich-activism-writing-socialism |access-date=September 8, 2022 |website=Jacobin |language=}}</ref>