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Jenny Brown first studied the radical history of the Women’s Liberation Movement with Gainesville (Florida) Women’s Liberation and then with Redstockings, where she developed materials for the Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archives for Action. She was a leader in the grassroots campaign to win morning-after pill contraception over-the-counter in the United States, and a plaintiff in the winning lawsuit. For ten years she co-chaired the Alachua County Labor Party, organizing for national health insurance, the right to a job at a living wage, free higher education and a working person’s political party under the Labor Party slogan, “The corporations have two parties, we need one of our own.” More recently she worked as a staff writer and ed ...more

Capitalism, Feminism, and Reproductive Control

In this International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) panel on February 8, Mytheli Sreenivas, Sarah Rodriguez and Jenny Brown discuss reproductive politics in the U.S., India and China. View here.

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“I was 21 when I found out I was pregnant and we both knew that I couldn’t continue with the pregnancy … Neither of us regret the decision to have an abortion but the shame, silence and secrecy that surrounded it were absolutely horrific … We did not have a diagnosis of a fatal foetal abnormality, I was not raped, I was not a victim of incest and my life was not in imminent danger but this was the decision that we had to make … My only regret is that I accepted the shame that this country and its people put on women and have carried it for so long. For too long.”
Jenny Brown, Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now

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“Procreative choice is for women an equivalent of the demand for the legally limited working day which Marx saw as the great watershed for factory workers in the nineteenth century. The struggles for that “modest Magna Carta,” as Marx calls it… did not end capitalism, but they changed the relation of the workers to their own lives.”
Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

“If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power. Racism gets its power from capitalism. Thus, if you're anti-racist, whether you know it or not, you must be anti-capitalist. The power for racism, the power for sexism, comes from capitalism, not an attitude.”
Stokely Carmichael

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