Johanna Brenner is an American

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and sociologist whose writing and thought is in the socialist-feminist vein. A graduate of

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(B.A., 1964) and the

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(M.A., 1970; Ph.D., 1979), she spent four years as a telephone installation technician worker in the 1970s. In 1981 she began teaching in the

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department at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, where she served from 1982 to 2005 as coordinator of its women's studies program. She is now emeritus professor. 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 (scholar), 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."

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Brenner, Johanna American women academics American sociologists American women sociologists American socialist feminists Living people Portland State University faculty Reed College alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni California socialists Oregon socialists Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women