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]
Ehrenreich, Barbara; English, Deirdre (1971). Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers. Oyster Bay, N.Y.: Glass Mountain Pamphlets. OCLC756025.
Ehrenreich, Barbara; English, Deirdre (1978). For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press. OCLC3893169.
^Ehrenreich, Barbara; English, Deirdre (2005). For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women. New York: Anchor Books. Dedication. ISBN9780307764164. OCLC858913697.
"Deirdre English — speaker bio". Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism. March 5, 2016. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved July 1, 2021.