{"product_id":"fetal-rights-womens-rights-suzanne-u-samuels-9780299145446","title":"Fetal Rights, Women's Rights: Gender Equality in the Workplace","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, many private employers in the United States enacted fetal protection policies that barred fertile women--that is, women who had not been surgically sterilized--from working in jobs that might expose fetuses to toxins. In \u003ci\u003eFetal Rights, Women's Rights\u003c\/i\u003e, Suzanne Samuels analyzes these policies and the ambiguous responses to them by federal and state courts, legislatures, administrative agencies, litigants, and interest groups. She poses provocative questions about the implicit links between social welfare concerns and paternalism in the workplace, including: are women workers or wombs?\u003cbr\u003e Placing the fetal protection controversy within the larger societal debate about gender roles, Samuels argues that governmental decision-makers confuse sex, which is based solely on biological characteristics, with gender, which is based on societal conceptions. She contends that the debate about fetal protection policies brought this ambiguity into stark relief, and that the response of policy-makers was rooted in assumptions about gender roles. Judges, legislators, and regulators used gender as a proxy, she argues, to sidestep the question of whether fetal protection policies could be justified by the biological differences between women and men.\u003cbr\u003e The fetal protection controversy raises a number of concerns about women's role in the workplace. Samuels discusses the effect on governmental policies of the ongoing controversy over abortion rights and the debates between egalitarian and relational feminists about the treatment of women at work. A timely and engrossing study, \u003ci\u003e Fetal Rights, Women's Rights\u003c\/i\u003e details the pattern of gender politics in the United States and demonstrates the broader ramifications of gender bias in the workplace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Suzanne U. Samuels\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299145441\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299145446\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.97h x 6.04w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/08\/1995 pg. 292","brand":"Suzanne U. Samuels","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44057807094015,"sku":"9780299145446","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d9eca645-1e11-4cce-ab80-29afbf72a048.jpg?v=1685048978","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fetal-rights-womens-rights-suzanne-u-samuels-9780299145446","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}