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Self Help, Inc.
Makeover Culture in American Life
Taschenbuch von Micki McGee
Sprache: Englisch

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Why doesn't self-help help? Cultural critic Micki McGee puts forward this paradoxical question as she looks at a world where the market for self-improvement products--books, audiotapes, and extreme makeovers--is exploding, and there seems to be no end in sight. Rather than seeing narcissism at the root of the self-help craze, as others have contended, McGee shows a nation relying on self-help culture for advice on how to cope in an increasingly volatile and competitive work world. Self-Help, Inc. reveals how makeover culture traps Americans in endless cycles of self-invention and overwork as they struggle to stay ahead of a rapidly restructuring economic order. A lucid and fascinating treatment of the modern obsession with work and self-improvement, this lively book will strike a chord with its acute diagnosis of the self-help trap and its sharp suggestions for how we can address the alienating conditions of modern work and family life.
Why doesn't self-help help? Cultural critic Micki McGee puts forward this paradoxical question as she looks at a world where the market for self-improvement products--books, audiotapes, and extreme makeovers--is exploding, and there seems to be no end in sight. Rather than seeing narcissism at the root of the self-help craze, as others have contended, McGee shows a nation relying on self-help culture for advice on how to cope in an increasingly volatile and competitive work world. Self-Help, Inc. reveals how makeover culture traps Americans in endless cycles of self-invention and overwork as they struggle to stay ahead of a rapidly restructuring economic order. A lucid and fascinating treatment of the modern obsession with work and self-improvement, this lively book will strike a chord with its acute diagnosis of the self-help trap and its sharp suggestions for how we can address the alienating conditions of modern work and family life.
Über den Autor
Micki McGee is a sociologist and cultural critic who has taught at New York University, Rutgers University, and The New School for Social Research. The recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Blue Mountain Center, she has recently joined the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Fordham University.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Acknowledgments

  • Prologue Coveys Daughter and Her Dilemma

  • Introduction From Self-Made to Belabored

  • 1: From Calling to Vision: Spiritual, Secular and Gendered Notions

  • 2: From Power! to Personal Power!: Survivalism and the Inward Turn

  • 3: From Having It All to Simple Abundance: Gender and the Logic of Diminished Expectations

  • 4: The Self at Work: From Job-Hunters to Artist-Entrepreneurs

  • 5: At Work on the Self: The Making of the Belabored Self

  • 6: All You Can Be, or Some Conclusions

  • Appendix Some Notes on Method

  • Notes

  • Bibliography

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Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780195337266
ISBN-10: 0195337263
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McGee, Micki
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Micki McGee
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2007
Gewicht: 0,471 kg
Artikel-ID: 120658673
Über den Autor
Micki McGee is a sociologist and cultural critic who has taught at New York University, Rutgers University, and The New School for Social Research. The recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Blue Mountain Center, she has recently joined the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Fordham University.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Acknowledgments

  • Prologue Coveys Daughter and Her Dilemma

  • Introduction From Self-Made to Belabored

  • 1: From Calling to Vision: Spiritual, Secular and Gendered Notions

  • 2: From Power! to Personal Power!: Survivalism and the Inward Turn

  • 3: From Having It All to Simple Abundance: Gender and the Logic of Diminished Expectations

  • 4: The Self at Work: From Job-Hunters to Artist-Entrepreneurs

  • 5: At Work on the Self: The Making of the Belabored Self

  • 6: All You Can Be, or Some Conclusions

  • Appendix Some Notes on Method

  • Notes

  • Bibliography

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780195337266
ISBN-10: 0195337263
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McGee, Micki
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Micki McGee
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2007
Gewicht: 0,471 kg
Artikel-ID: 120658673
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