How all politics became reproductive politics : from welfare reform to foreclosure to Trump / Laura Briggs.

"This book tells the story of how our political struggles over race, immigration, and queer folks came to center around reproductive politics--children, households, and families. Race-based shaming of irresponsible reproductive behavior--from an account of Black "welfare queens" and Latina immigrant...

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Main Author: Briggs, Laura, 1964- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Series:Reproductive justice ; 2.
Subjects:
Reproductive rights > United States > History.
Human reproduction > Political aspects > United States.
Human reproduction > Political aspects.
Reproductive rights.
United States.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xi, 286 pages ; 22 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "Radical feminism's misogynistic crusade" or the conservative tax revolt?
  • Welfare reform : the vicious campaign to reform 1% of the budget
  • Offshoring reproduction
  • The politics and economy of reproductive technology and black infant mortality
  • Gay married, with children
  • Epilogue : the subprime.