Bridges is an American anthropologist specializing in the intersectionality of race, reproductive justice, and law.
She is best known for her book, Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization, in which she argues that race and class largely affect women's prenatal, childbirth, and postnatal experiences.In 2011, Bridges received an honorable mention for the Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Book Prize for the Critical Study of North America.