Affective Equality: Love, Care and Injustice [Paperback]

This groundbreaking 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 'love labouring', it reveals the depth, complexity and multidimensionality of affective inequality.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. O'Brien 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

An Irish Times Book of the Year, 2009

'This brilliant qualitative research explores the connections among emotional connection, moral obligation, and care provision. A diverse set of thoughtful and sensitive essays explain a profoundly important cause of persistent gender inequality.'

- Professor Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts, USA

'This is a unique empirical and theoretical project...I can't think of another book like it...It is a definitive statement of a timeless problem - how to address the private sphere in all its complexitylÓ+