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Bodies in Revolt: Gender, Disability, and a Workplace Ethic of Care by Ruth O'Brien (The City University of New York Graduate Center, USA) at Abbey's Bookshop,
Bodies in Revolt: Gender, Disability, and a Workplace Ethic of Care
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Ruth O'Brien (The City University of New York Graduate Center, USA) Martha Albertson Fineman

Bodies in Revolt

Gender, Disability, and a Workplace Ethic of Care

Ruth O'Brien (The City University of New York Graduate Center, USA),  Martha Albertson Fineman

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Routledge
04 April 2005
Sociology: work & labour
By defining a disability as what a person cannot do - rather than in terms of a specific medical condition or disease - The ADA has tranformed disability into a non-essential, universal, ever-evolving, socially constructed category. Bodies in Revolt analyzes the ADA's potential to make employers take into account the individuality of their employees, showing how an important branch of feminist theory - an ethic of care - could be studied in a new location: the workplace. Also, if Congress amends the ADA, making it less vulnerable to the conservative federal judiciary's discretion,

the definition of a disability could be further universalized, offering women a strategy to feminize the workplace. In many places of employment, pregnancy is already treated like

an illness or short-term disability, allowing women to take

leave with pay. This leave policy, however, does not alter the workplace culture. By contrast, this project submits that an expansive definition of disability - one that recognizes the organic nature of the human mind and body - could include most women (and many men) and offer them a means of persuing justice in the workplace as they negotiate about work conditions based on concrete considerations of human needs.
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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 12mm
Weight:   400g
ISBN:   9780415945349
ISBN 10:   0415945348
Pages:   216
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Preface 1 A Subversive Act 2 The Life of the Body 3 An Alternative Ethic of Care 4 The Body at Work 5 Unmasking Control 6 Unions: Bridging the Divide 7 Critical Care: All for One and One for All

Ruth O'Brien is Chair of Political Science at The City University of New York Graduate Center and a Professor of Government at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

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