Lifestyle media and the formation of the self [electronic resource] / Jayne Raisborough.

Lifestyle media and the formation of the self [electronic resource] / Jayne Raisborough.

9780230297555 (electronic bk.)
0230297552 (electronic bk.)
9780230242951
0230242952

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

English

1 online resource (viii, 185 pages) : illustrations

HQ2042 .R35 2011eb

302.5

""Be the best you can be" urge self-help books and makeover TV shows, but what kind of self is imagined as needing a makeover and what kind of self is imagined as the happy result? Drawing on recent sociology and psychology, this book explores the function of slummy mummies, headless zombies and living autopsies to creating an idea of self"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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