| For Whose Protection?: Reproductive Hazards and Exclusionary Policies in the United States and Britain Revised Edition Contributor(s): Kenney, Sally J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0472081764 ISBN-13: 9780472081769 Publisher: University of Michigan Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1993 Annotation: Probes the complex issues that underlie policies regarding women's reproduction and the workplace. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice - Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 344.104 |
| LCCN: 92-28363 |
| Physical Information: 1.11" H x 6.06" W x 9.04" (1.20 lbs) 408 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Do employers have the right to exclude women of childbearing age from certain jobs? For the past three decades, courts in the United States and Britain have wrestled with the question of whether so-called fetal protection policies actually constitute sex discrimination in employment. In the closely followed United Auto Workers v. Johnson Controls case, the United States Supreme Court ruled against a battery manufacturer's policy of excluding women of childbearing age from certain jobs involving hazardous substances. In For Whose Protection? Sally Kenny places current exclusionary policies in the historical context of protective legislation, exploring how prevailing perceptions about sex differences have been used to exclude women from jobs. She analyzes a number of sex discrimination cases brought against employers both in Britain and the United States. Drawing on interviews with activists, parties to litigation, lawyers, and governmental officials as well as traditional analyses of legal canons and legislative history, her study considers important moral, legal and public policy questions in the context of real women's lives. |
