Unhappy Families

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Sarah Cefai

Abstract

A review of Sara Ahmed, The Promise of Happiness and David L. Eng, The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy.

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Author Biography

Sarah Cefai, University of Sydney

Sarah Cefai’s doctoral thesis, titled ‘Critical Feelings: A Genealogy of the Epistemology of Feeling in Queer Feminist Movement’, is due to be submitted in March 2011. Her work examines the political registers of feeling that play out in the experience of cultural difference.