The Promise of Happiness
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The Promise of Happiness

by Sara Ahmed

Philosophy Social Science
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Sara Ahmed investigates how happiness is promised, expected, and unequally distributed across society and culture.

ISBN-13 9780822347255 ASIN 0822347253 Views 250 Publisher Duke University Press Year 2010 Edition 59856th Format Paperback Product Group Book Pages 328 Created March 10, 2026 Updated September 21, 2026
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The Promise of Happiness examines the cultural politics of emotion and well-being.

Sara Ahmed analyzes how happiness functions as a social promise and expectation.

The book considers who is seen as happy and whose happiness is valued.

Ahmed draws on feminist, queer, and critical race theory to question normative ideas of happiness.

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