How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics

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.

"Makes a convincing argument that reproductive labor is at the heart of all public conversation and policy over the past several decades. . . . She manages to pull off this extensive examination in just 212 pages, using language that is accessible to those who are new to the material, while also creating crucial new understanding for those who consider themselves informed on gender and politics and/or people who are examining ways to use public policies to create change as part of broader justice movements."

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. “Radical Feminism’s Misogynistic Crusade” or the Conservative Tax Revolt?2. Welfare Reform: The Vicious Campaign to Reform 1 Percent of the Budget3. Offshoring Reproduction4. The Politics and Economy of Reproductive Technology and Black Infant Mortality5. Gay Married, with ChildrenEpilogue: The SubprimeNotesIndex