Sandra Morgen
| Sandra Morgen | |
|---|---|
| Born | Sandra Lynn Morgen March 31, 1950 Cleveland, Ohio |
| Died | September 29, 2016 (aged 66) Eugene, Oregon, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Feminist anthropology |
| Institutions | University of Oregon |
| Alma mater | University of North Carolina, University of Texas |
Sandra Lynn Morgen (March 31, 1950 – September 29, 2016) was an American feminist anthropologist. At the end of her career, she was a professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon, and previously served as vice provost for graduate studies and associate dean of the Graduate School, and director of the University of Oregon Center for the Study of Women in Society.
She was both known for her work on women's role in academic anthropology and pedagogy, and was an academic anthropologist. Her research on women's relation to the state, both in terms of tax reform and the women's health movement, has influenced the directions taken by feminist activists on issues such as welfare and reproductive rights.
Morgen received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1982, where she wrote her dissertation on a group of smaller Women's Health clinics that served women of color and poor and working class women. While at UNC Chapel Hill, she was an active member of a socialist feminist group.
Morgen's work includes two books, Stretched Thin: Poor Families, Welfare Work and Welfare Reform, and Into Our Own Hands: The Women's Health Movement in the United States, 1969-1990. Stretched Thin, co-authored with Joan Acker and Jill Weigt in 2009, discusses the effect of welfare reform on poor families in Oregon. Morgen, Acker and Weight argue that neoliberal welfare reform, particularly the doctrine of "personal responsibility", has challenged the economic survival of poor families in the state. In a review of the book in Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, Judith Lorber writes that "Stretched Thin not only provides a powerful feminist critique of neoliberalism and conservative understandings of "family values," but importantly reminds us of the multiple perspectives in welfare reform from social workers and administrators to recipients of them."
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