How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump (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.

• Reproductive Justice: An Introduction (Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century)
• Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundation, Theory, Practice, Critique
• Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
• Intersectionality (Key Concepts)
• How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
• Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines
• Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice
• Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
• Reproductive Justice: The Politics of Health Care for Native American Women
• Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy)