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

By Ruth O'Brien

Book 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."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415945348
• ISBN13: 9780415945349
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.4"