The Poverty of Privacy Rights 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.
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