How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics
Book 2 - Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century

How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics

From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump

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Today all politics are reproductive politics, argues esteemed feminist critic Laura Briggs. From longer work hours to the election of Donald Trump, our current political crisis is above all about reproduction. Households are where we face our economic realities as social safety nets get cut and wages decline. Briggs brilliantly outlines how politicians’ racist accounts of reproduction—stories of Black “welfare queens” and Latina “breeding machines"—were the leading wedge in the government and business disinvestment in families. With decreasing wages, rising McJobs, and no resources for family care, our households have grown ever more precarious over the past forty years in sharply race-and class-stratified ways. This crisis, argues Briggs, fuels all others—from immigration to gay marriage, anti-feminism to the rise of the Tea Party.

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2017
September 12
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
276
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of California Press
SELLER
University of California Press
SIZE
2.7
MB

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