For Poor Women, Privacy Is a Luxury

In late 2017, Khiara Bridges, a professor of law and anthropology at Boston University, joined us in the studio to discuss her most recent book, The Poverty of Privacy Rights. For the book, Dr. Bridges drew upon her 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in an obstetrics clinic at a public hospital in New York City, and she asserts that poor mothers have been stripped of their right to privacy. In the video above, Dr. Bridges explains the ways the state punishes poor mothers, simply for being poor.