Her publications include Visibly Female: Women and Art Today Reading Art, Reading Irigaray: The Politics of Art by Women Feminism-Art-Theory 1968-2014. Her research explores the intersection of feminism and art, and aims to develop thinking about the relationship between the practice and theory of each in what has been and continues to be a highly productive juncture. Hilary Robinson is Professor of Feminism, Art and Theory at Loughborough University. She co-wrote Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism with Sheila Rowbotham and Hilary Wainwright.

Her books include Is the Future Female? Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men and Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure.

Lynne Segal is Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College. Segal is also accompanied in conversation by Hilary Robinson, Professor of Feminism, Art and Theory at Loughborough University. |a Electronic access restricted to Villanova University patrons.This talk by Lynne Segal on her new research is accompanied by a selection of photographs illustrating the true nature of happiness found in others. |a What's wrong with happiness? - Sing no sad songs for me - Where is joy? - The perils of desire? - The 'truth about love' - Inventing utopias - Living differently - The states we're in - Afterword: happy endings? Radical Happiness is a passionate call for the re-discovery of the political and emotional joy that emerge when we learn to share our lives together. She shows that only in the revolutionary potential of coming together it is that we can come to understand the powers of flourishing. But what if the true nature of happiness can only be found in others' In Radical Happiness, leading feminist thinker Lynne Segal believes that we have lost the art of radical happiness- the art of transformative, collective joy. But at what cost' In an age of increasing individualism, we have never been more alone and miserable. Namely, the work seeks to tackle the concept of happiness in its definition, application, and increasing lack of presence in most of our lives.

|a What is the true meaning of happiness' Lynne Segal explores the radical potential of being together Why are we so obsessed by the pursuit of happiness' With new ways to measure contentment we are told that we have a right to individual joy. Lynne Segal’s recent work addresses some of the most personal problems of everyday people, and the vast majority of scholars living under the conditions of late capitalism. |a Online resource title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed January 9, 2018). |a Includes bibliographical references and index.

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