Khiara Bridges on “The Poverty of Privacy Rights” for Poor Pregnant Women

Khiara Bridges and her new book The Poverty of Privacy Rights

Dr. Bridges reads and discusses from her new book exposing the deeply-rooted and systematic “disenfranchisement of the rights to privacy” of poor pregnant women in the U.S. The book tells the hidden story of the dehumanizing government invasion of every corner of their lives.

“… a provocative, courageous account of poor women’s lives and the American healthcare system. One of the brightest stars of her generation, Khiara Bridges pushes against the traditional framings of sex-based privacy erosion to deftly articulate an urgent contemporary social concern―privacy rights filtered, constrained, and tampered by government. Bridges masterfully argues that to be poor in the United States and dependent on governmental assistance is to experience intrusions and violations of constitutional rights unrivaled by all others.” (Michele Goodwin, University of California Irvine)

Khiara Bridges is Professor of Law and Anthropology at Boston University.