How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump Volume 2 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520299948)

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: 0520299949
ISBN-13: 9780520299948
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 08/14/2018
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.25w x 0.65d