Affective Equality Love, Care and Injustice

by Lynch, Kathleen; Baker, John; Lyons, Maureen

• ISBN13: 9780230227194
• ISBN10: 0230227198
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This groundbreaking#xA0;book provides a new perspective on equality by highlighting and exploring affective equality, the aspect of equality concerned with relationships of love, care and solidarity. Drawing on studies of intimate caring, or#xA0;love labouring, it reveals the depth, complexity and multidimensionality of affective inequality.

Author Biography

KATHLEEN LYNCH is Professor of Equality Studies at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is co-founder of the UCD Equality Studies Centre and the School of Social Justice. She is the co-author of Equality: From Theory to Action and Equality and Power in Schools. She chairs the UCD-wide Egalitarian World Initiative Network (EWI). 
 
JOHN BAKER is Senior Lecturer in Equality Studies at University College Dublin, Ireland, and co-founder of the UCD Equality Studies Centre and the School of Social Justice. He is the author of Arguing for Equality and co-author of Equality: From Theory to Action. His main area of research is theoretical issues related to Equality Studies
 
MAUREEN LYONS is a Senior Researcher and Director of Research Design and Methodology at the Equality Studies Centre, University College Dublin, Ireland. Previously she held research posts at The Homeless Agency, Dublin and the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin. She is co-author of Inside Classrooms: The Teaching and Learning of Mathematics in Social Context, Getting Out of the House: Women Returning to Employment, Education and Training and Marital Breakdown and Family Law in Ireland. 

Table of Contents

Introduction; --K. Lynch, John Baker &--M. Lyons
Which Equalities Matter? The Place of Affective Equality in Egalitarian Theory; --K. Lynch, S. Cantillon, J. Walsh &--J. Baker
Love, Care and Solidarity: What is and is not Commodifiable; --K. Lynch &--J. Walsh
Love Labouring: Nurturing Rationalities and Relational Identities; --K. Lynch &--M. Lyons
Care-Less Citizenship? Public Devaluation and Private Validation; --K. Lynch &--M. Lyons
Gender, Social Class and Lone Caring: The Intersectionality of Inequalities; --K. Lynch &--M. Lyons
Love Labouring: Power and Mutuality; --K. Lynch, M. Lyons and S. Cantillon
Time to Care, Care Commanders and Care Footsoldiers; --K. Lynch, M. Lyons &--S. Cantillon
The Impact of Economic, Social, Cultural and Emotional Capital on Mothers Love and Care Work in Education; --M. OBrien
Caregiving Masculinities: An Exploratory Analysis; --N. Hanlon
Living in Care and Without Love The Impact of Affective Inequalities on Learning Literacy; --M. Feeley
Conclusion; --K. Lynch &--J. Baker
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography