What is Joan Acker?
{{Infobox academic | name = Joan Acker | image = | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | fullname = | othernames = | birth_name = Joan Elise Robinson Acker | birth_date = {{birth date|1924|3|18}} | birth_place = [[Illinois]], United States | death_date = {{death date and age|2016|06|22|1924|3|18}} | death_place = | death_cause = | nationality = American | spouse = {{marriage|end=div.|Martin Acker|1948|1967}} | era = | region = | alma_mater = [[University of Oregon]] | school_tradition = | known_for = | principal_ideas = | major_works = | awards = | influences = | influenced = | footnotes = }} '''Joan Elise Robinson Acker'''<ref name=Congress>{{cite web |title= Acker, Joan |url= http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87874062.html |publisher= Library of Congress |access-date= 4 January 2015 |quote= (Joan Elise Robinson Acker) vita (b. 1924) }}</ref> (March 18, 1924 &ndash; June 22, 2016) was an [[Americans|American]] [[feminist]] [[sociologist]], researcher, writer, and educator. She was a part of the [[University of Oregon]] faculty since 1967.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Joan Acker {{!}} Department of Sociology|url = http://sociology.uoregon.edu/profile/jacker/|website = sociology.uoregon.edu|access-date = 2015-11-23|archive-date = 2017-05-01|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170501183327/http://sociology.uoregon.edu/profile/jacker/|url-status = dead}}</ref> Acker was thought as one of the leading analysts regarding gender and class within the [[Second-wave feminism|second wave of feminism.]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=John Bellamy Foster|first=|title=Joan Acker’s Feminist Historical-Materialist Theory of Class|url=http://monthlyreview.org/2012/06/01/joan-ackers-feminist-historical-materialist-theory-of-class/|access-date=2015-11-23|website=Monthly Review}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Acker, Joan}} [[Category:1924 births]] [[Category:2016 deaths]] [[Category:American sociologists]] [[Category:Academics from Illinois]] {{US-bio-stub}}