Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women’s Work with Jenny Brown and Laura Tanenbaum

Wondering why we're experiencing abortion bans and attacks on birth control? The birth rate is plunging in the U.S.: It's a spontaneous birth strike! In other countries, panic over low birth rates has led governments to underwrite childbearing and childrearing with generous universal programs, but in the U.S., women have not yet realized the potential of our bargaining position. When we do, it will lead to new strategies for improving the difficult working conditions U.S. parents now face when raising children. Join Jenny Brown, in discussion with Laura Tanenbaum, on her new book, Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work (PM Press, 2019).
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Laura Tanenbaum is a writer who has published book reviews and essays about feminism, the left, literature and memoir for Jacobin, Dissent,The New York Times Book Review, In these Times, Open Letters Monthly, and The New Republic. She teaches at LaGuardia Community College where she is a...
Read moreJenny Brown helped organize the defeat of a special legislative session to restrict abortion in Florida in 1989 and has since organized innumerable consciousness-raising meetings, classes, speakouts, and campaigns around reproductive rights. She was a leader in the grassroots campaign to win...
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