Deirdre English

Deirdre English (born 1948) is the former editor of Mother Jones and author of numerous articles for national publications and television documentaries.[1] She has taught at the State University of New York[2] and currently teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is a faculty mentor at the Center for the Study of the Working Family at the Graduate School of Sociology. English is co-author, with Barbara Ehrenreich, of For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice along with a number of pamphlets. She contributed essays to Susan Meiselas's photography book Carnival Strippers.[3]

In 1991, her house burned down in the Oakland Hills Fire.[4]

Her mother is Fanita English. She was married to Don Terner, who died in a 1996 plane crash in Croatia.[5]

Works
  • Ehrenreich, Barbara; English, Deirdre (1971). Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers. Oyster Bay, N.Y.: Glass Mountain Pamphlets. OCLC 756025.
  • Ehrenreich, Barbara; English, Deirdre (1973). Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness. Old Westbury, N.Y.: Feminist Press. OCLC 741018.
  • Ehrenreich, Barbara; English, Deirdre (1978). For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press. OCLC 3893169.
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gollark: I disagree.
gollark: Discriminated unions are pretty neat. I wish more languages had good type systems.
gollark: Also, `if err != nil { return err }` is the enemy of civlization.
gollark: Like, say, generics, recovering from panics, sort of thing.

References
  1. English, Deirdre; Sheehy, Gail (October 3, 2008). "The Word from Wasilla". Salon.
  2. "Author attacks housework". The Star-Phoenix. CP. March 23, 1976.
  3. Meiselas, Susan (2003). Carnival Strippers. Göttingen: Steidl. ISBN 978-3-88243-954-0. OCLC 54817304.
  4. https://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/10/10/no-warning-a-sense-of-crisis-outrunning-the-firestorm
  5. Hewitt, Bill (April 22, 1996). "Man in Motion". People. 45 (16).


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