Book Launch

BOOK LAUNCH Kathleen Lynch, John Baker, Maureen Lyons and their colleagues in Equality Studies cordially invite you to attend the launch of two books published by Palgrave Macm millan Mac

@ 6pm on Thursday 22nd October 2009 UCD Quinn School of Business, Belfield, Dublin 4. Guest speakers: Niall Crowley, former CEO of the Equality Authority Susan McKay, Director of the National Women’s Council Affective Equality: Love, Care and Injustice Edited by Kathleen Lynch, John Baker and Maureen Lyons This groundbreaking work provides a 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, this collection provides 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 interdisciplinary study of egalitarian 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 how inequalities 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 sciences who care about equality.

Equality From Theory to Action 2nd edition by John Baker, Kathleen Lynch, Sara Cantillon and Judy Walsh This ground-breaking book sets out a new interdisciplinary model for equality studies. Integrating normative questions about the ideal of equality with empirical issues about the nature and causes of inequality, it develops a new framework for thinking about equality and inequality and applies it to a wide range of contemporary inequalities, including those based on class, gender, ethnicity, disability and sexual orientation. Drawing on an huge variety of sources, it proposes a coherent and far-reaching agenda of egalitarian change in the economy, politics, law, education and research practices. Finally, it sets out a new perspective on egalitarian social movements and explores innovative ideological and political strategies for achieving social change.

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