# Barbara Brenner

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'''Barbara Brenner''' (October 7, 1951 - May 10, 2013) was an American [breast cancer](/source/breast_cancer) [activist](/source/activist), after activist and legal work on several other causes, including [anti-Vietnam War activism](/source/anti-Vietnam_War_activism), [women's rights](/source/women's_rights), [civil rights](/source/civil_rights), and [employment discrimination](/source/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](/source/The_New_York_Times)'', May 20, 2013.</ref>  She led the organization [Breast Cancer Action](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Breast_Cancer_Action)'', May 11, 2013 in [San Francisco](/source/San_Francisco%2C_California).</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](/source/University_of_Minnesota) Press, USA. {{ISBN|978-0-8166-9944-5}}

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