What Does Thinking About Reproductive Politics Get Us?
UW Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park St., Madison, Wisconsin
press release:
“Where Did Trump Come From? Reproduction, Whiteness, & Neoliberalism”
Tuesday, April 9, 4pm, 6191 Helen C. White
“The Spectacle of Child Separation at the Border”
Wednesday, April 10, 4pm, 6191 Helen C. White
LAURA BRIGGS is Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts. She is the author of Somebody’s Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption, which won the Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians for the best book on US race relations, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico, and How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump. Her current book project is titled The Future is Born in Small Places: The Gendered Politics of Freedom, Debt Imperialism, and Unnatural Disaster in Puerto Rico.
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