Lifestyle media and the formation of the self [electronic resource] / Jayne Raisborough.
Raisborough, Jayne, 1969-
2011
HQ2042 .R35 2011eb
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Title Lifestyle media and the formation of the self [electronic resource] / Jayne Raisborough.
Author Raisborough, Jayne, 1969-
ISBN 9780230297555 (electronic bk.)
0230297552 (electronic bk.)
9780230242951
0230242952
Publication Details Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 185 p.) : ill.
Call Number HQ2042 .R35 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 302.5
Summary ""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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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pt. 1. Introducing lifestyle citizens
pt. 2. Framing the self
pt. 3. Before and after.

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