Title The poverty of privacy rights / Khiara M. Bridges

Published Stanford, California : Stanford Law Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents The moral construction of poverty -- The unconstitutional conditions doctrine : revealing, yet misleading -- Family privacy -- Informational privacy -- Reproductive privacy Summary This book makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived of the right to privacy. The U.S. Constitution is supposed to bestow rights equally. Yet the poor are subject to invasions of privacy that can be perceived as gross demonstrations of governmental power without limits. Courts have routinely upheld the constitutionality of privacy invasions on the poor, and legal scholars typically understand marginalized populations to have "weak versions" of the privacy rights everyone else enjoys. Khiara M. Bridges investigates poor mothers' experiences with the state-both when they receive public assistance and when they do not. Presenting a holistic view of just how the state intervenes in all facets of poor mothers' privacy, Bridges shows how the Constitution has not been interpreted to bestow these women with family, informational, and reproductive privacy rights. Bridges seeks to turn popular thinking on its head: Poor mothers' lack of privacy is not a function of their reliance on government assistance-rather it is a function of their not bearing any privacy rights in the first place. Until we disrupt the cultural narratives that equate poverty with immorality, poor mothers will continue to be denied this right Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Privacy, Right of -- United States Low-income mothers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States Low-income mothers -- Civil rights -- United States Poverty -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States LAW -- Constitutional. LAW -- Public. poverty protection of privacy marginalisation United States aid to disadvantaged groups Poverty -- Moral and ethical aspects Privacy, Right of United States Form Electronic book LC no. 2016057999 ISBN 9781503602304 1503602303

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