The Promise of Happiness

✍ Scribed by Sara Ahmed

Publisher: Duke University Press
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 326
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

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