Jenny Brown was a leader in the fight to get the morning-after pill over the counter in the US and a plaintiff in the winning lawsuit. She is co-author of the Redstockings book Women's Liberation and National Health Care: Confronting the Myth of America.

While editor at Labor Notes magazine, she coauthored How to Jump-Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers.

She writes, teaches, and organizes with the feminist group National Women's Liberation and is the author of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women's Work.