Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

Vive La Difference in the workplace: Feminism meets liberal theory in Las Vegas Casinos

Carr, Adrian Lapp, Cheryl

Centre for Social Justice and Social Change University of Western Sydney New South Wales, Australia | Labyrinth Consulting British Columbia, Canada

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Abstract

This paper discusses the broad strokes of liberal theory, feminism and universal rights. It covers opposing conservative arguments in which we review individual and social psychodynamics that we believe form the foundation for the tension between Liberalism and feminism and perhaps, more widely, Liberalism and Conservatism. It is within these discussions that we offer practical application of these posits in the form of our summary of precedent setting legal cases originating in Las Vegas and reported from Las Vegas. The cases are all united by the fact that they not only relate to Nevada, but that all, in one form or another, concern the matter of sexual difference. In our view they are also united in the manner in which they represent a perceived tension that arises in Liberalism as it is espoused in the United States and how it seeks to eradicate sexual difference under the law. We strive to unravel issues of identity as they pertain to the synthesis of Liberalism, feminism and the psychodynamic vantage.

Metadata

Journal Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry 
Volume 6 
Issue 4 
Issue date 2007 
Type Article 
Language en
Pagination 166-184
ISSN 1532-5555