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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 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 challenge and are challenged by 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.
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 328 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | Duke University Press |
Utgivningsdatum | 2010-04-06 |
ISBN | 9780822347255 |
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- Häftad, 328, Engelska, Duke University Press, 2010-04-06, 9780822347255
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