Barbara Brenner

{{Short description|American breast cancer activist}} thumb '''Barbara Brenner''' (October 7, 1951 - May 10, 2013) was an American breast cancer activist, after activist and legal work on several other causes, including anti-Vietnam War activism, women's rights, civil rights, and employment discrimination.<ref name="nytobit">Denise Grady, [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/us/barbara-brenner-breast-cancer-iconoclast-dies-at-61.html "Barbara Brenner, Breast Cancer Iconoclast, Dies at 61"] (obituary), ''The New York Times'', May 20, 2013.</ref> She led the organization Breast Cancer Action, which critiqued orthodoxy regarding the cancer, with which she had been diagnosed in 1993 and 1996.<ref name="nytobit" /> She was partners for 38 years with Suzanne Lampert,<ref name="nytobit" /> her partner since graduate school at Princeton University.<ref>David-Elijah Nahmod, [http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=68778 "Former BCA ED Barbara Brenner dies"], ''Bay Area Reporter'', May 16, 2013.</ref> She died at the age of 61 on May 10, 2013.<ref>Caitlin C., [http://bcaction.org/2013/05/11/in-memoriam-barbara-a-brenner-1951-2013/ "In Memoriam: Barbara A. Brenner, 1951-2013"], ''Breast Cancer Action'', May 11, 2013 in San Francisco.</ref>

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==External links== * [http://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/Breast-Cancer-Action-s-Barbara-Brenner-dies-4520124.php SF Chronicle obituary] * Sjoholm, Barbara (Editor) (2016). ''So Much To Be Done: The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner''. University of Minnesota Press, USA. {{ISBN|978-0-8166-9944-5}}

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