Papers by Johanna Brenner
The Women's Review of Books, 2002
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In two great utopian novels of the 1970s, Woman on the Edge of Time and The Dispossessed, Marge P... more In two great utopian novels of the 1970s, Woman on the Edge of Time and The Dispossessed, Marge Piercy and Ursula LeGuin drew on anarchist, that is, radically democratic collectivist ideas while exploring in depth those areas of life that have been feminism's particular focus. They imagined how children would be parented and educated, whether gender would even exist, how individuals would experience and express sexual desire, what human relationships would be like. Both novels assumed, as did feminists of the time, that the privatized, heterosexual nuclear family household was antithetical to radically democratic, egalitarian social relations. They imagined worlds where gender was no longer a central social category, where homosexual desire was treated no differently from heterosexual desire, and where monogamous relationships were not mandated but freely chosen. They envisioned children and parents embedded in a supportive, democratic community, men and women equally involved i...
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Monthly Review, 1998
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 1992
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Contemporary Sociology, 1983
... Beyond the fragments: Feminism and the making of socialism. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: ...... more ... Beyond the fragments: Feminism and the making of socialism. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: ... PAGES (INTRO/BODY): xvi, 253 p. SUBJECT(S): Feminism; Women and socialism; Right and left (Political science); Great Britain. DISCIPLINE: No discipline assigned. ...
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Annual Review of Sociology, 1989
This paper defines the concepts of gender and social reproduction as developed in feminist theory... more 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, professionalization, and state policy, we argue that the organization of gender relations and social reproduction crucially shaped macrohistorical processes, as well as being shaped by them.
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Socialist Register, 2011
The great recession has no doubt punctured American celebration of the unregulated market and gen... more The great recession has no doubt punctured American celebration of the unregulated market and generated anger at wealth disparities and shock at the loss of the American dream. Yet three decades of conservative dominance and political drift to the right have taken their toll. With the cooptation/destruction of vehicles for working-class resistance (especially unions, civil rights and community-based organizations), most working-class families are not engaged in collective action but are instead fending for themselves, desperately seeking ways to avoid the brunt of this crisis. Reliance on (and continued possibilities for) individual survival strategies tends to reproduce existing social divisions; these, in turn, undergird the prevailing populist response to the crisis. In this political discourse, where ‘Main Street’ confronts ‘Wall Street’, deserving Americans (aka ‘working families’) are caught between an irresponsible, self-serving elite and a dependent, parasitic (of colour) ‘u...
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The journal of college science teaching, 2010
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The past decade has witnessed an extraordinary flowering of Marxist-feminist analysis and debate.... more 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 the relationship between women’s oppression and class exploitation in capitalism that is neither reductionist nor idealist. In this concern, Barrett’s project is very much a part not only of Marxist feminism, but of the contemporary re-evaluations of Marxist theory as a whole, especially the renewed emphasis on the importance of ideology, the state and class struggle. Two theoretical issues lie at the heart of the Marxist-feminist debates of the last decade: 1. The degree to which women’s oppression is constructed independently of the general operation of capitalist production. 2. The degree to which the oppression of women is located at ...
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Being a socialist-feminist activist has never been easy. We occupy a stony ground between the pop... more Being a socialist-feminist activist has never been easy. We occupy a stony ground between the popularity of liberal (and social-democratic) feminism's apparently practical reformism and the heady appeal of radical feminism's claim to a female moral/spiritual superiority. Especially in these not so very revolutionary times, to write about the meaning of revolutionary change from the point of view of socialist-feminism seems to be more an exercise in myth-making than analysis, more an expression of utopian hope than an outlining of political strategy. Ironically, just at the moment that socialist-feminists are trying to cope with what we experience as decline if not defeat of feminism, or at least of feminism as a grass-roots movement within which radicals could organize, some on the left are finding in feminism--and other 'new movements'--revolutionary subjects to replace the working-class.
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Revista Brasileira de Ciência Política, 2015
Resumo O texto analisa os limites de qualquer forma privatizada familiar de organização da vida -... more Resumo 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 suporte para o cuidado das crianças, dos idosos, mas também do cuidado recíproco entre adultos, tem levado a políticas conservadoras de exaltação da família. Isso corresponde, no entanto, a uma sobrecarga de funções, em que especialmente mulheres e trabalhadores se veem pressionados a assumir ocupações que permitiriam prover a família e, embora as primeiras deixem pouco tempo para isso, a fornecer, no domínio privado familiar restrito, todo o trabalho e o suporte necessários ao cuidado e à reprodução cotidiana da vida. Ao mesmo tempo, ...
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This collection of 18 articles shows how conceptions of the political are expanded and revised wh... more This collection of 18 articles shows how conceptions of the political are expanded and revised when viewed through the lens of gender. Organized to serve both scholars and students across the social sciences, this book re-examines such basic notions as citizenship, collectivity, political resistance and the state. Section One, "Gender, Citizenship, and Collectivity" includes: Nancy Frazer and Linda Gordon's critique of dependence and citizenship; Iris Young on women as a social collective; Ruth Bloch on the feminization of public virtue in revolutionary America; Trisha Franzen on feminism and lesbian community; and Sonia Kruks on de Beauvoir and feminism. "Collective Action and Women's Resistance", Section Two, features: Louise Tilly's "Paths of Proletarianization"; Temma Kaplan's "Female Consciousness and Collective Action"; and five assessments of women's collective action worldwide - Samira Haj on Palestine, Arlene McLeod on Egypt, Gay Seidman on South Africa, Nancy Sternbach et al on Latin America and Anne Walthall on Japan. A section on gender and the state features: Bronwyn Winter on the law and cultural relativism; Sherene Razack on sexual violence; Wendy Luttrell on educational institutions; Patricia Stamp on ethnic conflict; Elizabeth Schmidt on patriarchy and capitalism; and Muriel Nazzari on post-revolutionary Cuba. These essays originally appeared in "Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society", edited by Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres and Barbara Laslett.
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La profunda penetración capitalista en la periferia rural ha desbaratado las economías establecid... more La profunda penetración capitalista en la periferia rural ha desbaratado las economías establecidas que apoyaban "el patriarcado clásico" -sistema en que el poder de los hombres se apoya económica y políticamente en la posesión masculina de la propiedad y ser cabeza de
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Socialist Studies/Études Socialistes, 2014
This article considers feminist politics in the context of global capitalist restructuring. The i... more 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 others which had flourished in the 1960s and 1970s. In the 21st century, it is argued, in response to structural adjustment policies enforced by neo-liberal capitalism in both the global north and global south, women of the working classes have entered the political stage through a broad array of movements. The article explores how these movements are creatively developing socialist feminist politics. The article concludes that this socialist-feminist politics has much to offer the left as it gropes toward new organizational forms and...
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Signs Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2000
Page 1. Barbara Laslett Johanna Brenner Twenty-First-Century Academic Feminism in the United Stat... more Page 1. Barbara Laslett Johanna Brenner Twenty-First-Century Academic Feminism in the United States: Utopian Visions and Practical Actions he twentieth century began as the century of modernism with the hope that science ...
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