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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Small amount of light pencil annotations which could be erased. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> 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. (LL)