{"id":13341,"date":"2017-03-11T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13341"},"modified":"2023-01-27T17:32:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T01:32:37","slug":"the-corporately-produced-conscience-emergency-contraception-and-the-politics-of-workplace-accommodations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13341","title":{"rendered":"The corporately produced conscience: Emergency contraception and the politics of workplace accommodations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Isaac Weiner<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"145\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/jamacademrel.jpg\" alt=\"Journal of the American Academy of Religion\" class=\"wp-image-15432\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Journal of the American Academy of Religion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br>This article uses a chance encounter with a supermarket checkout clerk as an occasion for reframing contemporary debates about workplace accommodations and the religious politics of contraception. Scholarship on workplace religion has tended to assume a rigid distinction between the religious spaces in which conscience is formed and the secular spaces to which claims of conscience are brought. In contrast, I argue that we might productively redescribe employee claims of conscience as corporately produced, rather than emanating from the realm of the private or personal. I reimagine the workplace as an important site of ethical subject formation, as a space in and through which moral claims are constituted, rather than to which they are brought, and I explore how accommodations can produce the very differences they are meant to protect. In this way, my discussion reveals how legal mandates and corporate policies join together to produce new moral subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Weiner I. <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/jaar\/article\/85\/1\/31\/3063122?login=false\">The corporately produced conscience: Emergency contraception and the politics of workplace accommodations<\/a>. J Am Acad Religion. 2017 Mar;85(1):31-63. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaac Weiner AbstractThis article uses a chance encounter with a supermarket checkout clerk as an occasion for reframing contemporary debates about workplace accommodations and the religious politics of contraception. 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