from welfare reform to foreclosure to Trump
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Briggs, Laura
- Publish Year
- 2017
- Shelfmark
- VS 1M 2017 - B
- Thesaurus
- reproductieve rechten, etniciteit, sociale klasse, LHBT, huwelijken, zwangerschappen, armoede, migratie, feminisme, zorgarbeid, Verenigde Staten, 21e eeuw
- Description
- All politics are reproductive politics, argues Briggs. From longer work hours to the election of Donald Trump, the current political crisis is above all about reproduction. Briggs 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, households have grown ever more precarious over the past forty years in sharply race-and class-stratified ways.