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“It is important to say that the explosion of immigrant nanny and household work was not an inevitable or even direct consequence of feminism in the United States. On the contrary, it was the endpoint of a long series of refusals on the part of government and business to meet the demands of the women's movement.”
― How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump
― How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump
“Although white women as a group lost the most in welfare reform, they got the one bone that's always been thrown to white working- and middle-class people in the United States: the opportunity to feel they were morally superior to people of color.”
― How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump
― How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump
“Teen pregnancy is not in itself a problem, although it is a marker of a problem in a society where good jobs are distributed almost exclusively to people who go through a long period of higher education. When girls believe, correctly, that neither they nor their children would be better off if they waited until their twenties to have their children, it means their opportunities are slim indeed. And that - rather than worries about sexually active girls - should trouble us a great deal.”
― How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump
― How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump
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