TY - BOOK ID - 144906878 TI - How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics : From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump PY - 2017 SN - 0520957725 PB - Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Reproductive rights KW - Human reproduction KW - History. KW - Political aspects KW - abortion debate. KW - anti-feminism. KW - birth control. KW - breeding machines. KW - donald trump. KW - dystopia. KW - economic reality. KW - feminist theory. KW - gay marriage. KW - gender and women studies. KW - immigration. KW - political activist. KW - political crisis. KW - professor. KW - racist accounts of reproduction. KW - reproductive rights. KW - social activist. KW - social safety net. KW - tea party agenda. KW - welfare queens. KW - womens rights. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:144906878 AB - 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. ER -