The promise of happiness /
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." Combin...
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Durham [NC] :
Duke University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Why Happiness, Why Now?
- Chapter one Happy Objects
- Chapter two Feminist Killjoys
- Chapter three Unhappy Queers
- Chapter four Melancholic Migrants
- Chapter five Happy Futures
- Conclusion Happiness, Ethics, Possibility
- Notes
- References
- Index
