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Author Lynch, K

Title Affective Equality : Love, Care and Injustice
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (302 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1 Which Equalities Matter? The Place of Affective Equality in Egalitarian Thinking; 2 Love, Care and Solidarity: What Is and Is Not Commodifiable; 3 Love Labouring: Nurturing Rationalities and Relational Identities; 4 Care-less Citizenship? Public Devaluation and Private Validation; 5 Gender, Social Class and Lone Caring: The Intersectionality of Inequalities; 6 Love Labouring: Power and Mutuality; 7 Time to Care, Care Commanders and Care Footsoldiers
8 The Impact of Economic, Social, Cultural and Emotional Capital on Mothers' Love and Care Work in Education9 Caregiving Masculinities: An Exploratory Analysis; 10 Living in Care and Without Love The Impact of Affective Inequalities on Learning Literacy; 11 Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary 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
Notes Print version record
Subject Equality.
Sociology.
sociology.
Equality
Sociology
Form Electronic book
Author Baker, J
Lyons, M
ISBN 9780230245082
0230245080