Lifestyle media and the formation of the self [electronic resource] / Jayne Raisborough.
2011
HQ2042 .R35 2011eb
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Lifestyle media and the formation of the self [electronic resource] / Jayne Raisborough.
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9780230297555 (electronic bk.)
0230297552 (electronic bk.)
9780230242951
0230242952
0230297552 (electronic bk.)
9780230242951
0230242952
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 185 p.) : ill.
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HQ2042 .R35 2011eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
pt. 1. Introducing lifestyle citizens
pt. 2. Framing the self
pt. 3. Before and after.
pt. 2. Framing the self
pt. 3. Before and after.