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How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure Trump
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How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure Trump in Bloomington, MN
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How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure Trump in Bloomington, MN
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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 raceand classstratified ways. This crisis, argues Briggs, fuels all others—from immigration to gay marriage, antifeminism to the rise of the Tea Party.
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 raceand classstratified ways. This crisis, argues Briggs, fuels all others—from immigration to gay marriage, antifeminism to the rise of the Tea Party.



















