CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF LAW WORKSHOP
presents
Khiara Bridges
Boston University School of Law
The Poverty of Privacy Rights
Tuesday, NoVember 25, 2014
12:30 - 2:00
Solarium (room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
This paper examines the privacy violations that poor pregnant women (who are disproportionately racial minorities) are forced to endure when they receive government-provided healthcare (i.e., Medicaid). Most scholars who have examined the issue have described the government as violating poor women's privacy rights. This paper attempts to shift the discourse. It argues that most scholars are looking at the issue through the prism of liberal rights discourse, which presumes that everyone (rich or poor, black or white) has the same constitutional rights. This paper argues that liberal rights discourse does not accurately describe what is happening in this context. Instead, it suggests that wealth is a precondition for privacy rights and, as a result, poor women do not have privacy rights at all.
Khiara M. Bridges has written many articles concerning, race, class, reproductive rights, and the intersection of the three. Her scholarship has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the California Law Review, the Boston University Law Review, the Fordham Law Review, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, among others. She is also the author of Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization (2011), published by the University of California Press.
She graduated as valedictorian from Spelman College, receiving her degree in three years. She received her JD from Columbia Law School and her PhD, with distinction, from Columbia University's Department of Anthropology. While in law school, she was a teaching assistant for the former dean, David Leebron (Torts), as well as for the late E. Allan Farnsworth (Contracts). She was a member of the Columbia Law Review and a Kent Scholar. While in college, she was a counselor at the Feminist Women's Health Center in Atlanta, gaining experience with policies affecting the availability of abortion services in Georgia. She has also been a reporter for the Miami Herald, speaks fluent Spanish and basic Arabic, and is a classically trained ballet dancer who continues to perform professionally in New York City.
For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.
