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The promise of happiness / Sara Ahmed.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ahmed, Sara, 1969-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Happiness.
- Social norms.
- Social control.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (328 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy draws on the work of feminist, black, and queer critics showing how happiness is used to justify social oppression.
- Contents:
- Introduction: why happiness, why now?
- Happy objects
- Feminist killjoys
- Unhappy queers
- Melancholic migrants
- Happy futures
- Conclusion: happiness, ethics, possibility.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-299) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613036773
- 9781283036771
- 1283036770
- 9780822392781
- 082239278X
- OCLC:
- 636959120
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