How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump Volume 2 by Briggs, Laura

How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump Volume 2 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520281912)

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How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump Volume 2 by Briggs, Laura

How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump Volume 2

$29.95
How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump Volume 2 by Briggs, Laura

How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump Volume 2

$29.95
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Laura Briggs
ISBN-10: 0520281918
ISBN-13: 9780520281912
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 09/12/2017
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.80w x 1.00d

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By Laura Briggs
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Laura Briggs is Professor and Chair of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of several books on gender and empire, including Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico and, most recently, Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption. She also serves as an editor for the University of California Press American Crossroads series.

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