Book contents
- Feminist Judgments
- Series page
- Advisory Panel for Feminist Judgments Series
- Feminist Judgments: Reproductive Justice Rewritten
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Advisory Panel
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Cases
- Part I Introduction and Overview
- Part II The Feminist Judgments
- 1 Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927)
- 2 Skinner v. Oklahoma, 316 U.S. 535 (1942)
- 3 Wyman v. James, 400 U.S. 309 (1971)
- 4 Maher v. Roe, 432 U.S. 464 (1977)
- 5 In Re Madyun, 114 Daily Wash. Law. Rptr. 2233 (D.C. Super. Ct., 1986)
- 6 Johnson v. Calvert, 5 Cal. 4th 84 (1993)
- 7 Ferguson v. City of Charleston, 532 U.S. 67 (2001)
- 8 State v. Oakley, 629 N.W.2d 200 (Wis. 2001)
- 9 Sojourner A. v. N.J. Dep’t of Human Servs., 177 N.J. 318 (2003)
- 10 K.M. v. E.G., 37 Cal. 4th 130 (2005)
- 11 Reber v. Reiss, 42 A.3d 1131 (2012)
- 12 Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, 570 U.S. 637 (2013)
- 13 Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., 573 U.S. 682 (2014)
- 14 Young v. UPS, 135 S. Ct. 1338 (2015)
- 15 Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, 136 S. Ct. 2292 (2016)
- Index
3 - Wyman v. James, 400 U.S. 309 (1971)
from Part II - The Feminist Judgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 March 2020
- Feminist Judgments
- Series page
- Advisory Panel for Feminist Judgments Series
- Feminist Judgments: Reproductive Justice Rewritten
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Advisory Panel
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Cases
- Part I Introduction and Overview
- Part II The Feminist Judgments
- 1 Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927)
- 2 Skinner v. Oklahoma, 316 U.S. 535 (1942)
- 3 Wyman v. James, 400 U.S. 309 (1971)
- 4 Maher v. Roe, 432 U.S. 464 (1977)
- 5 In Re Madyun, 114 Daily Wash. Law. Rptr. 2233 (D.C. Super. Ct., 1986)
- 6 Johnson v. Calvert, 5 Cal. 4th 84 (1993)
- 7 Ferguson v. City of Charleston, 532 U.S. 67 (2001)
- 8 State v. Oakley, 629 N.W.2d 200 (Wis. 2001)
- 9 Sojourner A. v. N.J. Dep’t of Human Servs., 177 N.J. 318 (2003)
- 10 K.M. v. E.G., 37 Cal. 4th 130 (2005)
- 11 Reber v. Reiss, 42 A.3d 1131 (2012)
- 12 Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, 570 U.S. 637 (2013)
- 13 Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., 573 U.S. 682 (2014)
- 14 Young v. UPS, 135 S. Ct. 1338 (2015)
- 15 Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, 136 S. Ct. 2292 (2016)
- Index
Summary
In Wyman v. James, the Supreme Court in 1971 upheld the constitutionality of home visits by social service caseworkers to verify the eligibility of welfare recipients. The case was a bitter blow to the welfare rights movement of the era and cemented a divide in privacy rights between the poor and the rich. The Supreme Court’s decision rested on distrust of the motives and morality of low-income mothers, particularly women of color, and it fueled the harmful “welfare queen” trope that continues to bedevil American social welfare policy. It also failed to restrain increasing forms of surveillance that impact not only poor people but all Americans. By contrast, Priscilla Ocen’s rewritten opinion contains a robust vision of privacy that does not discriminate based on race, gender, or income.
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- Feminist Judgments: Reproductive Justice Rewritten , pp. 53 - 71Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020