The Poverty of Privacy Rights

The Poverty of Privacy Rights
Author: Khiara M. Bridges
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2017-06-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1503602303

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.

Privacy in Context

Privacy in Context
Author: Helen Nissenbaum
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2009-11-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0804772894

Privacy is one of the most urgent issues associated with information technology and digital media. This book claims that what people really care about when they complain and protest that privacy has been violated is not the act of sharing information itself—most people understand that this is crucial to social life —but the inappropriate, improper sharing of information. Arguing that privacy concerns should not be limited solely to concern about control over personal information, Helen Nissenbaum counters that information ought to be distributed and protected according to norms governing distinct social contexts—whether it be workplace, health care, schools, or among family and friends. She warns that basic distinctions between public and private, informing many current privacy policies, in fact obscure more than they clarify. In truth, contemporary information systems should alarm us only when they function without regard for social norms and values, and thereby weaken the fabric of social life.

Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty

Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty
Author: Martha F. Davis
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2021-03-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1788977513

This important Research Handbook explores the nexus between human rights, poverty and inequality as a critical lens for understanding and addressing key challenges of the coming decades, including the objectives set out in the Sustainable Development Goals. The Research Handbook starts from the premise that poverty is not solely an issue of minimum income and explores the profound ways that deprivation and distributive inequality of power and capability relate to economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights.

A Poverty of Rights

A Poverty of Rights
Author: Brodwyn M. Fischer
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 0804752907

A Poverty of Rights examines the history of poor people's citizenship in Rio from the 1920s through the 1960s, the 20th-century period that most critically shaped urban development, social inequality, and the meaning of law and rights in modern Brazil.

Property Rights and Poverty

Property Rights and Poverty
Author: Thomas Allen Horne
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1990
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780807819128

Property Rights and Poverty: Political Argument in Britain, 1605-1834

Privacy at the Margins

Privacy at the Margins
Author: Scott Skinner-Thompson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2020-11-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1316856704

Limited legal protections for privacy leave minority communities vulnerable to concrete injuries and violence when their information is exposed. In Privacy at the Margins, Scott Skinner-Thompson highlights why privacy is of acute importance for marginalized groups. He explains how privacy can serve as a form of expressive resistance to government and corporate surveillance regimes - furthering equality goals - and demonstrates why efforts undertaken by vulnerable groups (queer folks, women, and racial and religious minorities) to protect their privacy should be entitled to constitutional protection under the First Amendment and related equality provisions. By examining the ways even limited privacy can enrich and enhance our lives at the margins in material ways, this work shows how privacy can be transformed from a liberal affectation to a legal tool of liberation from oppression.

Reproducing Race

Reproducing Race
Author: Khiara Bridges
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2011-03-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520949447

Reproducing Race, an ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital, explores the role of race in the medical setting. Khiara M. Bridges investigates how race—commonly seen as biological in the medical world—is socially constructed among women dependent on the public healthcare system for prenatal care and childbirth. Bridges argues that race carries powerful material consequences for these women even when it is not explicitly named, showing how they are marginalized by the practices and assumptions of the clinic staff. Deftly weaving ethnographic evidence into broader discussions of Medicaid and racial disparities in infant and maternal mortality, Bridges shines new light on the politics of healthcare for the poor, demonstrating how the "medicalization" of social problems reproduces racial stereotypes and governs the bodies of poor women of color.

The Poverty Industry

The Poverty Industry
Author: Daniel L. Hatcher
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2016-06-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1479874728

"Hatcher [posits that] state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social safety net, turning America's most vulnerable populations into sources of revenue"--

Poverty and Human Rights

Poverty and Human Rights
Author: Suzanne Egan
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-04-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 183910211X

This timely and insightful book brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to evaluate the role of human rights in tackling the global challenges of poverty and economic inequality. Reflecting on the concrete experiences of particular countries in tackling poverty, it appraises the international success of human rights-based approaches.