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100 1  Ahmed, Sara,|d1969-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n98038016 
245 14 The promise of happiness /|cSara Ahmed. 
264  1 Durham [NC] :|bDuke University Press,|c2010. 
300    x, 315 pages ;|c23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-299) and 
       index. 
505 0  Introduction: why happiness, why now? -- Happy objects -- 
       Feminist killjoys -- Unhappy queers -- Melancholic 
       migrants -- Happy futures -- Conclusion: happiness, ethics,
       possibility. 
520    "The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural 
       critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what 
       follows when we make our desires and even our own 
       happiness conditional on the happiness of others: 'I just 
       want you to be happy', 'I'm happy if you're happy'. 
       Combining philosophy and feminist cultural studies, Sara 
       Ahmed reveals the affective and moral work performed by 
       the 'happiness duty', the expectation that we will be made
       happy by taking part in that which is deemed good, and 
       that by being happy ourselves, we will make others happy. 
       Ahmed maintains that happiness is a promise that directs 
       us toward certain life choices and away from others. 
       Happiness is promised to those willing to live their lives
       in the right way. Ahmed draws on the intellectual history 
       of happiness, from classical accounts of ethics as the 
       good life, through seventeenth-century writings on affect 
       and the passions, eighteenth-century debates on virtue and
       education, and nineteenth-century utilitarianism. She 
       engages with feminist, antiracist, and queer critics who 
       have shown how happiness is used to justify social 
       oppression, and how challenging oppression sometimes 
       causes unhappiness. Reading novels and films including 
       "Mrs. Dalloway", "The Well of Loneliness", "Bend It Like 
       Beckham", and Children of Men, Ahmed considers the plight 
       of the figures who are challenged by, and themselves 
       challenge, the attribution of happiness to particular 
       objects or social ideals: the feminist killjoy, the 
       unhappy queer, the angry black woman, and the melancholic 
       migrant. Through her readings, she raises critical 
       questions about the moral order imposed by the injunction 
       to be happy."--Back cover. 
650  0 Happiness.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh85058807 
650  0 Social norms.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh85123980 
650  0 Social control.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh85123931 
650  7 Happiness.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/951160 
650  7 Social norms.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1122692 
650  7 Social control.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       1122415 
650  7 Soziale Norm.|2idszbz 
650  7 Social norms.|2homoit|0https://homosaurus.org/v3/
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