How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics

From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump Volume 2
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-520-29994-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 304 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 136 mm x 206 mm, Gewicht: 344 g

Reihe: Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Briggs, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. “Radical Feminism’s Misogynistic Crusade” or the Conservative Tax Revolt?
2. Welfare Reform: The Vicious Campaign to Reform 1 Percent of the Budget
3. Offshoring Reproduction
4. The Politics and Economy of Reproductive Technology and Black Infant Mortality
5. Gay Married, with Children
Epilogue: The Subprime

Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Briggs is Professor and Chair of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of several books on gender and empire, including Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico and, most recently, Somebody’s Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption. She also serves as an editor for the University of California Press American Crossroads series.