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cjgl-2611	Bridges, Kiara M.	Towards a Theory of State Visibility: Race, Poverty, and Equal Protection	2020	64	.pdf	application/pdf	22893	892	49	When applied to the woman who depends upon the state to subsidize her prenatal care expenses, visibility is the condition of possibility for the state's demand that poor women make themselves, their homes, their children, their histories, and their private lives objects of a more comprehensive state knowledge.45 When state visibility is understood in this way, the physical visibility of poor women-accomplished by the repeated haling of their physical bodies into the view of institutions or persons who have relationships with the state- 44 See id. at 205 ([T]hc Panopticon must not be understood as a dream building: it is the diagram of a mechanism of power reduced to its ideal form .. ); see also ROBYN WIEGMAN, AMERICAN ANATOMIES: THEORIZING RACE AND GENDER 38 (1995) (describing the Panopticon as an architectural form that demonstrates both materially and metaphorically the new relations of visibility that enmeshed the disciplinary subject). This larger project of state visibility encompasses the ability of the state not only to ask invasive questions, but also to demand answers that may substantiate the state's insistence upon maintaining a regulatory (and punitive, if necessary) relationship with the subject.46 In sum, in the context of PCAP/Medicaid, poor women are made grossly visible to the state after having run a gauntlet of questions about various subjects, including, but not limited to, their immigration status, history of drug use and abuse, sources of income, diet, history of domestic violence, receipt of public assistance, history of investigations by 'ACS, history of sexual abuse, and criminal record.	cache/cjgl-2611.pdf	txt/cjgl-2611.txt