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Self-Help, Inc.: makeover culture in American life

Micki McGee
Resource Type:
Book (Print/Paper)
Publication:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005
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Table of Contents:
  • From calling to vision : spiritual, secular, and gendered notions
  • From power! to personal power! : survivalism and the inward turn
  • From having it all to simple abundance : gender and the logic of diminished expectations
  • The self at work : from job-hunters to artist-entrepreneurs
  • At work on the self : the making of the belabored self
  • All you can be, or some conclusions.
Author/Creator:
McGee, Micki
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Main Work:
Self-Help, Inc.: makeover culture in American life [by McGee, M.]
Subjects:
Self-help techniques — United States
Psychological literature — United States
Success — United States — Psychological aspects
Self-help techniques
Psychological literature
Success — Psychological aspects
Success
United States
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-267) and index.
Physical Description:
xi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Numbers:
BF632 .M36 2005
ISBNs:
0195171241
9780195171242
9780195337266
0195337263
Library of Congress Control Numbers:
2004024905
OCLC Numbers:
56942442