M. Lyons

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.

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.

When Maxwell, the interstellar ambassador of goodwill, first lands on the planet Magellum, he finds two species: Red Elks and Blue Bills. The Red Elks have bullied the Blue Bills for hundreds of years, and Maxwell decides to step in and help them discover ways to work and play together. He decides to teach them about a sporting event from his home world, Pangeria: the Magic Sphere Games. As the two groups practice the sport, they discover they can have fun together. And for the biggest game of all, beings from all across the galaxy gather to witness the event, with treats and cheers and a festive half-time show. But what happens when one of the Blues, Buzzy, doesn't show up in time to play? As everyone thinks about how to get the game going again and tries to figure out what happened to Buzzy, all the players learn an important lesson about treating others with respect. This children's story tells the tale of how a friendly orange spaceman introduces a new sport on the planet Magellum to help its people learn to get along

In the nineteenth century, the reading public expanded to embrace new categories of consumers, especially of cheap fiction. These new lower-class and female readers frightened liberals, Catholics and republicans alike. The study focuses on workers, women and peasants, and the ways in which their reading was constructed as a social and political problem, to analyse the fear of reading in nineteenth century France. The author presents a series of case-studies of actual readers, to examine their choices and their practices, and to evaluate how far they responded to (or subverted) attempts at cultural domination.