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

by Laura Briggs

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520299949
• ISBN13: 9780520299948
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.1"