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Bodies in revolt : gender, disability, and a workplace ethic of care
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ISBN: 0415945348 1135393249 0203954785 1135393311 1299627331 9781135393243 9780203954782 041594533X 9780415945332 9780415945349 9781135393311 9781135393380 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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Annotation Bodies in Revoltargues 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."

Identity politics at work : resisting gender, gendering resistance
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ISBN: 0415325404 9780415325400 0415655080 9786610216093 1134342837 1280216093 0203358260 9780203358269 6610216096 9781134342785 9781134342822 9781134342839 9780415655088 1134342829 9781280216091 Year: 2004 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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This book represents the coming together of two key debates within organization studies: theorizing on gender and ways of understanding resistance. These debates have been given renewed vigour with the 'postmodern turn' in organization studies and feminist theory. Fusing these two literatures together offers a far deeper understanding of the issues of power, subjectivity and agency.Representing a growing interest in the contributions that feminist theorizing can offer to the study of organizations, this book focuses on issues of gender and resistance in organizations and, in particular

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