Bent out of Shape

Shame, Solidarity, and Women's Bodies at Work

By (author) Karen Messing
Categories: Women’s health, Popular medicine and health, Family and health, Health, Relationships and Personal development
Publisher: Between the Lines
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Paperback : 9781771135412, 276 pages, April 2021

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Description

Award-winning ergonomist Karen Messing is talking with women—women who wire circuit boards, sew clothes, clean toilets, drive forklifts, serve food, run labs. What she finds is a workforce in harm’s way, choked into silence, whose physical and mental health invariably comes in second place: underestimated, underrepresented, understudied, underpaid. Should workplaces treat all bodies the same?

Awards

Joint winner, Leo Panitch Book Prize 2022
Winner, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Gold Medalist, Women's Studies Adult Non-fiction 2021
Winner, Independent Publisher Book Award Bronze Medalist, Canada-East, Best Regional Non-fiction 2022
Short-listed, The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction 2021