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

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."

Author: Ruth O'Brien
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/01/2005
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.76w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9780415945349

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.