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Feminist Eudaimonia: A Research Direction

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In this epilogue, we point out an important gap in existing happiness/well-being/quality-of-life research. We propose feminist eudaimonia as a promising research direction to fill this gap. In addition, we define feminist eudaimonia and raise broad questions pertaining to it for future research.

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  1. Department of Management and Marketing, School of Management, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, 02908, USA

    Jiyun Wu

  2. Department of Management, College of Business Administration, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, 50614, USA

    Mary L. Connerley

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  1. Department of Management College of Business Administration, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA

    Mary L. Connerley

  2. Department of Management and Marketing School of Management, Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

    Jiyun Wu

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Wu, J., Connerley, M.L. (2016). Feminist Eudaimonia: A Research Direction. In: Connerley, M., Wu, J. (eds) Handbook on Well-Being of Working Women. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9897-6_45

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