Affective equality
Subtitle: love, care, and injustice
By: [edited by] Kathleen Lynch, John Baker, and Maureen Lyons ;  with Sara Cantillon ... [et al.].
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780230212497; 9780230227194
Subjects: Equality; Quality of Health Care; Family; Healthcare Disparities; Caregivers; Child care; Family Relations; Affect; Sex Factors
Description: This text provides a different perspective on equality by highlighting and exploring affective equality, the aspect of equality concerned with relationships of love, care and solidarity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-276) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Kathleen Lynch, John Baker and Maureen Lyons; title: 1. Which equalities matter? The place of affective equality in egalitarian thinking / Kathleen Lynch ... [et al.]; title: 2. Love, care and solidarity : Wwhat is and is not commodifiable / Kathleen Lynch and Judy Walsh; title: 3. Love labouring : nurturing rationalities and relational identities / Kathleen Lynch and Maureen Lyons; title: 4. Care-less citizenship? Public devaluation and private validation / Kathleen Lynch and Maureen Lyons; title: 5. Gender, social class and lone caring : the intersectionality of inequalities / Kathleen Lynch and Maureen Lyons; title: 6. Love labouring : power and mutuality / Kathleen Lynch, Maureen Lyons and Sara Cantillon; title: 7. Time to care, care commanders and care footsoldiers / Kathleen Lynch, Maureen Lyons and Sara Cantillon; title: 8. The impact of economic, social, cultural and emotional capital on mothers' love and care work in education / Maeve O'Brien; title: 9. Caregiving masculinities : an exploratory analysis / Niall Hanlon; title: 10. Living in care and without love : the impact of affective inequalities on learning literacy / Maggie Feeley; title: 11. Conclusion / Kathleen Lynch and John Baker.