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One that you might find interesting is how all politics became reproductive politics,

from welfare reform to foreclosure to Trump by Laura Briggs.

Today, all politics are reproductive politics, argues feminist critic Laura Briggs, from longer work

hours to the election of Donald Trump. Households are where we face our economic realities as social safety nets get cut and wages

decline. Briggs outlines how politicians racist accounts of reproduction, stories of black

welfare queens and Latina breeding machines laid the groundwork for government and business

disinvestment in families.

With decreasing wages, rising McJobbs, and no resources for family care,

our households have grown ever more precarious.

This crisis, argues Briggs, fuels all others, from immigration to gay marriage and anti-feminism to the rise of the Tea Party.

How All Politics became reproductive politics, from welfare reform to foreclosure to Trump by Laura Briggs.

Out now from University of California Press.

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