Bodies in Revolt: Gender, Disability, and a Workplace Ethic of Care / Edition 1

by Ruth O'Brien

Overview

Bodies in Revolt argues that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) could humanize capitalism by turning employers into care-givers, creating an ethic of care in the workplace. Unlike other feminists, Ruth O'Brien bases her ethics not on benevolence, but rather on self-preservation. She relies on Deleuze's and Guttari's interpretation of Spinoza and Foucault's conception of corporeal resistance to show how a workplace ethic that is neither communitarian nor individualistic can be based upon the rallying cry "one for all and all for one."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415945332
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/02/2005
Series:	Feminist Ethics Series
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Preface 1 A Subversive Act 2 The Life of the Body 3 An Alternative Ethic of Care 4 The Body at Work5 Unmasking Control6 Unions: Bridging the Divide 7 Critical Care: All for One and One for All