Brief 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.
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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.
About the Book
This groundbreaking workprovidesa new perspective on equality by highlighting and exploring affective equality, that aspect of equality that is concerned with relationships of love, care and solidarity. Drawing on interrelated studies of intimate caring - termed here 'love labouring' - by a diverse set of carers and care recipients, thiscollectionprovides a new and insightful understanding of the complexity and multidimensionality, as well as the gendered and classed character, of affective inequality.
Building on the foundations of the ambitious interdisciplinarystudy ofegalitarian theory Equality: From Theory To Action (Palgrave, 2009, 2nd edition)this research demonstrates the importance of intimate care for egalitarian thinking, as well as the centrality of nurturing, love labouring relationships for personal identities. It shows how care can be undermined by inequalities of material support, time and public recognition, and howinequalities in economic, political and cultural relations generate and reinforce inequalities in the affective system itself.
This agenda-setting work will be essential reading for students, researchers and professionals across the social scienceswho care about equality."
Review Quotes
1. 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 complexity. Social policy is driving further into the private sphere and this book highlights just what is at stake. It is a book that anyone concerned about social justice cannot afford to ignore.' - Professor Madeleine Arnot, University of Cambridge, UK '...this book offers a wonderfully fresh and holistic perspective on the pervasive problem of inequality in the carrying out and the receipt of care and love.' - Gender& Development
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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 complexity. Social policy is driving further into the private sphere and this book highlights just what is at stake. It is a book that anyone concerned about social justice cannot afford to ignore.'
- Professor Madeleine Arnot, University of Cambridge, UK
'...this book offers a wonderfully fresh and holistic perspective on the pervasive problem of inequality in the carrying out and the receipt of care and love.' - Gender& Development
3.
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 complexity. Social policy is driving further into the private sphere and this book highlights just what is at stake. It is a book that anyone concerned about social justice cannot afford to ignore.'
- Professor Madeleine Arnot, University of Cambridge, UK
'...this book offers a wonderfully fresh and holistic perspective on the pervasive problem of inequality in the carrying out and the receipt of care and love.' - Gender& Development
