Laura Briggs's How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare PDF

By Laura Briggs

at the present time all politics are reproductive politics, argues esteemed feminist critic Laura Briggs. From longer paintings hours to the election of Donald Trump, our present political hindrance is specially approximately reproduction. Households are the place we are facing our financial realities as social defense nets get minimize and wages decline. Briggs brilliantly outlines how politicians’ racist bills of reproduction—stories of Black “welfare queens” and Latina “breeding machines"—were the prime wedge within the govt and company disinvestment in households. With lowering wages, emerging McJobs, and no assets for relatives care, our families have grown ever extra precarious during the last 40 years in sharply race-and class-stratified methods. This hindrance, argues Briggs, fuels all others—from immigration to homosexual marriage, anti-feminism to the increase of the Tea Party.

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