| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Privacy, Right of -- United States.
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Privacy, Right of. |
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United States. |
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Low-income mothers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
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Low-income mothers. |
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Low-income mothers -- Civil rights -- United States.
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Civil rights. |
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Poverty -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
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Poverty -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Poverty. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bridges, Khiara M. Poverty of privacy rights. Stanford, California : Stanford Law Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2017 9780804795456 (DLC) 2016057430 |
| ISBN |
9781503602304 (electronic book) |
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1503602303 (electronic book) |
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9780804795456 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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