Johanna Brenner

Johanna Brenner is an American feminist and sociologist whose writing and thought is in the socialist-feminist vein.

A graduate of Reed College (B.A., 1964) and the University of California, Los Angeles (M.A., 1970; Ph.D., 1979), she spent four years as a telephone installation technician worker in the 1970s. ^[1] In 1981 she began teaching in the sociology department at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, where she served from 1982 to 2005 as coordinator of its women's studies program. ^[1] She is now emeritus professor. ^{[2] [3]}

Brenner has contributed to New Left Review , Monthly Review , and other periodicals. In 1993 she worked with Catherine Sameh and Kathryn Tetrick to open In Other Words Women's Books and Resources.

Mike Davis has said, "Johanna Brenner writes with a clarity of purpose that arises out of a lifetime of participation in the struggles of working-class women." ^[4]

References

1. Brenner, Johanna. C.V. (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-06-17. Retrieved 2012-05-10.
2. Brenner, Johanna. Portland State University Sociology department. Archived from the original on 2017-08-19. Retrieved 2013-06-15.
3. "Portland State University Sociology department website". Archived from the original on 2010-06-04. Retrieved 2010-06-01.
4. Brenner, Johanna (2000). Women and the Politics of Class. New York: Monthly Review Press. ISBN   9781583670101.

Writings

• Brenner, Johanna (July–August 1993). "The best of times, the worst of times: US feminism today". New Left Review . I (200). New Left Review.
• Brenner, Johanna (November 1998). "On gender and class in U.S. labor history". Monthly Review . 50 (6). Monthly Review Foundation: 1. doi:10.14452/MR-050-06-1998-10_1.
• Brenner, Johanna (2000). Women and the politics of class. Monthly Review Press. ISBN   9788187879602.
• Brenner, Johanna; Laslett, Barbara; Arat, Yasmin, eds. (1995). Rethinking the political: women, resistance, and the state . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN   9780226073996.