Sara Ahmed

The Promise of Happiness

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780822347255
• ISBN-10: 0822347253
• Artikelnr.: 28032304

Autorenporträt

Sara Ahmed

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Why Happiness, Why Now? 1
1. Happy Objects 21
2. Feminist Killjoys 50
3. Unhappy Queers 88
4. Melancholic Migrants 121
5. Happy Futures 160
Conclusion: Happiness, Ethics, Possibility 199
Notes 225
References 283
Index 301