Jenny Brown (3)
Auteur de Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Jenny Brown, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
Jenny Brown is a National Women's Liberation organizer and former editor of Labor Notes. She was a leader in the grassroots campaign to make morning-after pill contraception available over the counter in the U.S. and was a plaintiff in the winning lawsuit. She is the author of Without Apology: The afficher plus Abortion Struggle Now. afficher moins
Œuvres de Jenny Brown
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 20th Century
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Pays (pour la carte)
- USA
- Professions
- activist
editor, Labor Notes - Organisations
- National Organization for Women
Gainesville Women's Liberation
National Women's Liberation
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This is a really good anti-capitalist look into why policies in the US are so anti-woman (anti-abortion, anti-birth control, anti-comprehensive sex ed, etc.). I had never thought about reproduction through this lens, and it really makes a lot of sense.
Capitalism is an unstable mechanism requiring positive feedback and "infinite" growth (I use scare quotes because infinite growth is not possible), and since women are having fewer children, rich people can't extract more money from the labor pool as they'd like to.
(An aside: Now that Covid-19 has caused interesting changes to the labor market, I'd like to see books published before 2020 include an afterword commenting on how things have changed, and if their theories are still supported by the new evidence.)… (plus d'informations)
Capitalism is an unstable mechanism requiring positive feedback and "infinite" growth (I use scare quotes because infinite growth is not possible), and since women are having fewer children, rich people can't extract more money from the labor pool as they'd like to.
(An aside: Now that Covid-19 has caused interesting changes to the labor market, I'd like to see books published before 2020 include an afterword commenting on how things have changed, and if their theories are still supported by the new evidence.)… (plus d'informations)
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PM Press (1)
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- #160,151
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This book came out the same year as my book about abortion activism and social media. Too bad we don’t know each other — could have had some productive collaborations.