Research Catalog

Title

One-eyed science : occupational health and women workers / Karen Messing ; foreword by Jeanne Mager Stellman.

Author

Messing, Karen.

Publication

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors

Stellman, Jeanne Mager, 1947-

Description

xx, 244 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

"After decades of research by the author and her colleagues into what women do in positions such as bank teller, secretary, waitress, nurse, factory worker, and poultry processor, Karen Messing is astonished to find that for many policymakers, researchers, and activists, the topic of women's occupational health doesn't exist." "Responding to the tough question, why are scientists so unresponsive to the needs of women workers, Messing describes long-standing difficulties in gaining attention for the occupational health of women, ranging from the structure of the grant process and the conferences crucial to the professional life of researchers to the basic assumptions of scientific practice. Messing laments the separation of even most feminist health researchers from workplace concerns and asserts that it is time to develop a science that can prevent women workers' pain and suffering."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Labor and social change

Uniform Title

Labor and social change

Subject

• Women > Employment > Health aspects
• Occupational diseases > Sex factors
• Sex discrimination against women
• Sexism in medicine
• Occupational diseases
• Prejudices
• Women, Working
• Occupational Diseases
• Prejudice
• Prejudices
• Occupational diseases
• Occupational diseases > Sex factors
• Sex discrimination against women
• Sexism in medicine
• Women > Employment > Health aspects
• Frauenarbeit
• Berufskrankheit
• Frau
• Unterprivilegierung
• Beruf
• Gesundheitsgefährdung
• Sekseverschillen
• Beroepsziekten
• Seksisme
• Vrouwenarbeid
• women workers
• occupational health
• occupational medicine
• hazard
• working conditions
• ergonomics
• female occupation
• sexual division of labour
• occupational research
• occupational disease
• office worker
• stress
• air pollution
• EDP personnel
• ionising radiation
• pregnancy
• statistical table
• Conditions de travail
• Discrimination dans l'emploi
• Division sexuelle du travail
• Femme au travail
• Maladie professionnelle
• Travail des femmes
• Travailleuse
• Santé au travail
• travailleuses
• santé au travail
• médecine du travail
• risque
• conditions de travail
• ergonomie
• profession féminine
• division du travail basée sur le sexe
• recherche relative aux professions
• maladie professionnelle
• employé de bureau
• pollution atmosphérique
• personnel d'informatique
• radiation ionisante
• grossesse
• tableau statistique
• trabajadoras
• salud en el trabajo
• medicina del trabajo
• riesgo
• condiciones de trabajo
• ergonomía
• profesión femenina
• división del trabajo por sexo
• investigación ocupacional
• enfermedad profesional
• empleado de oficina
• estrés
• contaminación atmosférica
• personal de informática
• radiación ionizante
• embarazo
• cuadros estadísticos
• Canada
• USA
• Etats-Unis
• Canadá
• Estados Unidos

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-233) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Jeanne Mager Stellman -- 1. Women Workers and Their Working Conditions -- 2. Is There a Women's Occupational Health Problem? -- 3. Are Women Biologically Fit for Jobs? Are Jobs Fit for Women? -- 4. Who Are Scientists? -- 5. "Rigor": The Scientific Basis for Funding -- 6. Constructing Scientific Knowledge -- 7. Musculoskeletal Problems -- 8. Office Work and Health -- 9. Emotional Stressors in Women's Occupations -- 10. Reproductive Hazards -- 11. Science and Real Life -- 12. Changing Science for Women Workers.

ISBN

• 1566395976
• 9781566395977
• 1566395984
• 9781566395984

LCCN

97026885

OCLC

• ocm37211349
• 37211349
• SCSB-367988

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library