Johanna Brenner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780198 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johanna Brenner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Brenner |
| SIGNATURE | BRENNER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Portland State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Class
What Is Progressive Neoliberalism: A Debate
In its U.S. form, argues Nancy Fraser, progressive neoliberalism is an alliance of mainstream currents of new social movements on the one side, and high-end "symbolic" and service-based business sectors on the other. In this alliance, progressive forces are effectively joined with the forces of cognitive capitalism, especially financialization. However unwittingly, the former lend their charisma to the latter. What Trump's voters rejected was not…
Democracia, comunidade e cuidado
O texto analisa os limites de qualquer forma privatizada familiar de organização da vida - e não apenas daquelas formadas por casais heterossexuais com filhos - para a democracia. A partir dessa análise, discute a reconfiguração das estruturas de autoridade como necessária à recriação de formas coletivas de responsabilização pela vida cotidiana. Nas sociedades contemporâneas (e o texto tem o foco sobretudo nos Estados Unidos), a precarização do s…
St Century Socialist-Feminism
This article considers feminist politics in the context of global capitalist restructuring. The incorporation of liberal feminist ideas into the contemporary neo-liberal capitalist order of the global north is analyzed through an intersectional lens and in relation to the successful employers’ assault on the working class which set the stage for the defeat of the radical equality demands of feminists, anti-racist activists, indigenous peoples and…
Free-Market Feminism
Hester Eisenstein, Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women's Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2010), 272 pages, $26.95, paperback.Feminism Seduced, written for a general audience, presents a powerful, historically grounded critique of liberal feminism. Drawing on three decades of writing by socialist/Marxist feminists and women-of-color feminists, Eisenstein weaves a compelling account of how the centr…
Women and the Politics of Class
Brenner writes with a clarity of purpose that arises out of a lifetime of participation in the struggles of working-class women. A major voice on the American left.--Mike Davis, May 2000 Is there a future for feminism? The debate over the direction and politics of the women's movement has been joined recently by post-feminists and anti-feminists, in addition to competing feminist perspectives. In Women and the Politics of Class, Johanna Brenner o…
Utopian thought: Re-visioning gender, family, and community
Utopian ideals are vital to sustained engagement in the struggle to create a better society. However, the problematic aspects of utopian traditions also need to be addressed as part of the work of social movements. This paper offers a framework for exploring the interplay of healthy and pathological forms of idealization in groups and for analyzing the non-rational dimensions of group life. In critiquing communitarian thought, the paper develops …
Twenty-First-Century Academic Feminism in the United States: Utopian Visions and Practical Actions
On Gender and Class in U.S. Labor History
The relationship between gender and class, central to understanding the history of the labor movement, raises important issues for Marxist analysis in general. Grappling with the complexities of this relationship forces us to confront a wide range of theoretical and practical questions. What is the connection between "material conditions" and "identity"? What role do culture, discourses, sexuality, and emotions play in shaping people's responses …
The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917-1942 . Gwendolyn Mink Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare . Linda Gordon
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: US Feminism Today
Here is one picture of feminism and women’s experience in the contemporary United States: women advancing up the ladder in professions, public administration and management; making steady inroads into political office; changing attitudes and cultural images; winning legislation against discriminatory practices in education and employment; feminist scholarship transforming
Gender and Space: Lesbians and Gay Men in the City
Gender, Social Reproduction, and Women's Self-Organization: Considering the U.S. Welfare State
This article argues that changes in the organization of social reproduction, defined to include the activities, attitudes, behaviors, emotions, responsibilities, and relationships involved in maintaining daily life, can explain historical differences in women's political self-organization. Examining the Progressive period, the 1930s, and the 1960s and 1970s, the authors suggest that the conditions of social reproduction provide the organizational…
Gender and Social Reproduction: Historical Perspectives
This paper defines the concepts of gender and social reproduction as developed in feminist theory and discusses their utility for synthesizing recent historical research on women. We review literature on the emergence, institutionalization, and reorganization of “separate spheres” in nineteenth and early twentieth century Europe and North America. Focusing on social class differences in family strategies, procreation, sexuality, consumerism, prof…
Le féminisme et la gauche aux États-Unis
Le féminisme a eu un impact fondamental sur la gauche américaine. L'idée que les femmes doivent être parties prenantes de la direction politique des organisations à tous les niveaux, que les questions féminines doivent s'intégrer à tout programme, et que toute coalition doit comprendre des organisations féministes, est largement acceptée. Mais si on trouve bien le reflet des modes d'organisation féministe dans l'aile gauche des mouvements écologi…
Letter
Work Relations and the Formation of Class Consciousness
Feminist Political Discourses: Radical Versus Liberal Approaches to the Feminization of Poverty and Comparable Worth
Feminist campaigns concerning feminization of poverty and comparable worth are analyzed in terms of their major policy goals and the arguments typically used to justify those goals. The differences between liberal and radical discourses on each issue are outlined and the implications for feminist practice discussed. It is concluded that situating the issues of women's poverty and pay equity in a liberal political discourse may strengthen importan…
Women of the Upper Class
Marxist Theory and the Woman Question
Rethinking Women’s Oppression
The past decade has witnessed an extraordinary flowering of Marxist-feminist analysis and debate. Michèle Barrett’s Women’s Oppression Today is an ambitious recent attempt to present and synthesize this literature. Through a dialogue with the most influential currents in socialist-feminist thought Barrett attempts to construct a Marxist analysis of
Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism
Women's Self Organization: Theory and Strategy; Lise Vogel Responds
Socialist feminists confront the key strategic issue of the relationship between the women's liberation struggle and the struggle for socialist transformation in the course of facing practical questions, such as whether to build women's organizations separate from socialist organizations, whether to work in multi-class feminist organizations, and so forth.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are…
Gender and Space: Lesbians and Gay Men in the City
Gender, Social Reproduction, and Women's Self-Organization: Considering the U.S. Welfare State
This article argues that changes in the organization of social reproduction, defined to include the activities, attitudes, behaviors, emotions, responsibilities, and relationships involved in maintaining daily life, can explain historical differences in women's political self-organization. Examining the Progressive period, the 1930s, and the 1960s and 1970s, the authors suggest that the conditions of social reproduction provide the organizational…
What Is Progressive Neoliberalism: A Debate
In its U.S. form, argues Nancy Fraser, progressive neoliberalism is an alliance of mainstream currents of new social movements on the one side, and high-end "symbolic" and service-based business sectors on the other. In this alliance, progressive forces are effectively joined with the forces of cognitive capitalism, especially financialization. However unwittingly, the former lend their charisma to the latter. What Trump's voters rejected was not…
Women and the Politics of Class
Brenner writes with a clarity of purpose that arises out of a lifetime of participation in the struggles of working-class women. A major voice on the American left.--Mike Davis, May 2000 Is there a future for feminism? The debate over the direction and politics of the women's movement has been joined recently by post-feminists and anti-feminists, in addition to competing feminist perspectives. In Women and the Politics of Class, Johanna Brenner o…
Feminist Political Discourses: Radical Versus Liberal Approaches to the Feminization of Poverty and Comparable Worth
Feminist campaigns concerning feminization of poverty and comparable worth are analyzed in terms of their major policy goals and the arguments typically used to justify those goals. The differences between liberal and radical discourses on each issue are outlined and the implications for feminist practice discussed. It is concluded that situating the issues of women's poverty and pay equity in a liberal political discourse may strengthen importan…
Work Relations and the Formation of Class Consciousness
Democracia, comunidade e cuidado
O texto analisa os limites de qualquer forma privatizada familiar de organização da vida - e não apenas daquelas formadas por casais heterossexuais com filhos - para a democracia. A partir dessa análise, discute a reconfiguração das estruturas de autoridade como necessária à recriação de formas coletivas de responsabilização pela vida cotidiana. Nas sociedades contemporâneas (e o texto tem o foco sobretudo nos Estados Unidos), a precarização do s…
Utopian thought: Re-visioning gender, family, and community
Utopian ideals are vital to sustained engagement in the struggle to create a better society. However, the problematic aspects of utopian traditions also need to be addressed as part of the work of social movements. This paper offers a framework for exploring the interplay of healthy and pathological forms of idealization in groups and for analyzing the non-rational dimensions of group life. In critiquing communitarian thought, the paper develops …
On Gender and Class in U.S. Labor History
The relationship between gender and class, central to understanding the history of the labor movement, raises important issues for Marxist analysis in general. Grappling with the complexities of this relationship forces us to confront a wide range of theoretical and practical questions. What is the connection between "material conditions" and "identity"? What role do culture, discourses, sexuality, and emotions play in shaping people's responses …
Rethinking Women’s Oppression
The past decade has witnessed an extraordinary flowering of Marxist-feminist analysis and debate. Michèle Barrett’s Women’s Oppression Today is an ambitious recent attempt to present and synthesize this literature. Through a dialogue with the most influential currents in socialist-feminist thought Barrett attempts to construct a Marxist analysis of
Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism
Women's Self Organization: Theory and Strategy; Lise Vogel Responds
Socialist feminists confront the key strategic issue of the relationship between the women's liberation struggle and the struggle for socialist transformation in the course of facing practical questions, such as whether to build women's organizations separate from socialist organizations, whether to work in multi-class feminist organizations, and so forth.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are…
Marxist Theory and the Woman Question
Rethinking Women’s Oppression
The past decade has witnessed an extraordinary flowering of Marxist-feminist analysis and debate. Michèle Barrett’s Women’s Oppression Today is an ambitious recent attempt to present and synthesize this literature. Through a dialogue with the most influential currents in socialist-feminist thought Barrett attempts to construct a Marxist analysis of
Women of the Upper Class
Feminist Political Discourses: Radical Versus Liberal Approaches to the Feminization of Poverty and Comparable Worth
Feminist campaigns concerning feminization of poverty and comparable worth are analyzed in terms of their major policy goals and the arguments typically used to justify those goals. The differences between liberal and radical discourses on each issue are outlined and the implications for feminist practice discussed. It is concluded that situating the issues of women's poverty and pay equity in a liberal political discourse may strengthen importan…
Work Relations and the Formation of Class Consciousness
Gender and Social Reproduction: Historical Perspectives
This paper defines the concepts of gender and social reproduction as developed in feminist theory and discusses their utility for synthesizing recent historical research on women. We review literature on the emergence, institutionalization, and reorganization of “separate spheres” in nineteenth and early twentieth century Europe and North America. Focusing on social class differences in family strategies, procreation, sexuality, consumerism, prof…
Le féminisme et la gauche aux États-Unis
Le féminisme a eu un impact fondamental sur la gauche américaine. L'idée que les femmes doivent être parties prenantes de la direction politique des organisations à tous les niveaux, que les questions féminines doivent s'intégrer à tout programme, et que toute coalition doit comprendre des organisations féministes, est largement acceptée. Mais si on trouve bien le reflet des modes d'organisation féministe dans l'aile gauche des mouvements écologi…
Letter
Gender, Social Reproduction, and Women's Self-Organization: Considering the U.S. Welfare State
This article argues that changes in the organization of social reproduction, defined to include the activities, attitudes, behaviors, emotions, responsibilities, and relationships involved in maintaining daily life, can explain historical differences in women's political self-organization. Examining the Progressive period, the 1930s, and the 1960s and 1970s, the authors suggest that the conditions of social reproduction provide the organizational…
Gender and Space: Lesbians and Gay Men in the City
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: US Feminism Today
Here is one picture of feminism and women’s experience in the contemporary United States: women advancing up the ladder in professions, public administration and management; making steady inroads into political office; changing attitudes and cultural images; winning legislation against discriminatory practices in education and employment; feminist scholarship transforming
The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917-1942 . Gwendolyn Mink Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare . Linda Gordon
On Gender and Class in U.S. Labor History
The relationship between gender and class, central to understanding the history of the labor movement, raises important issues for Marxist analysis in general. Grappling with the complexities of this relationship forces us to confront a wide range of theoretical and practical questions. What is the connection between "material conditions" and "identity"? What role do culture, discourses, sexuality, and emotions play in shaping people's responses …
Utopian thought: Re-visioning gender, family, and community
Utopian ideals are vital to sustained engagement in the struggle to create a better society. However, the problematic aspects of utopian traditions also need to be addressed as part of the work of social movements. This paper offers a framework for exploring the interplay of healthy and pathological forms of idealization in groups and for analyzing the non-rational dimensions of group life. In critiquing communitarian thought, the paper develops …
Twenty-First-Century Academic Feminism in the United States: Utopian Visions and Practical Actions
Women and the Politics of Class
Brenner writes with a clarity of purpose that arises out of a lifetime of participation in the struggles of working-class women. A major voice on the American left.--Mike Davis, May 2000 Is there a future for feminism? The debate over the direction and politics of the women's movement has been joined recently by post-feminists and anti-feminists, in addition to competing feminist perspectives. In Women and the Politics of Class, Johanna Brenner o…
Free-Market Feminism
Hester Eisenstein, Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women's Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2010), 272 pages, $26.95, paperback.Feminism Seduced, written for a general audience, presents a powerful, historically grounded critique of liberal feminism. Drawing on three decades of writing by socialist/Marxist feminists and women-of-color feminists, Eisenstein weaves a compelling account of how the centr…
St Century Socialist-Feminism
This article considers feminist politics in the context of global capitalist restructuring. The incorporation of liberal feminist ideas into the contemporary neo-liberal capitalist order of the global north is analyzed through an intersectional lens and in relation to the successful employers’ assault on the working class which set the stage for the defeat of the radical equality demands of feminists, anti-racist activists, indigenous peoples and…
Democracia, comunidade e cuidado
O texto analisa os limites de qualquer forma privatizada familiar de organização da vida - e não apenas daquelas formadas por casais heterossexuais com filhos - para a democracia. A partir dessa análise, discute a reconfiguração das estruturas de autoridade como necessária à recriação de formas coletivas de responsabilização pela vida cotidiana. Nas sociedades contemporâneas (e o texto tem o foco sobretudo nos Estados Unidos), a precarização do s…
What Is Progressive Neoliberalism: A Debate
In its U.S. form, argues Nancy Fraser, progressive neoliberalism is an alliance of mainstream currents of new social movements on the one side, and high-end "symbolic" and service-based business sectors on the other. In this alliance, progressive forces are effectively joined with the forces of cognitive capitalism, especially financialization. However unwittingly, the former lend their charisma to the latter. What Trump's voters rejected was not…
Class
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Feminism (5 works)