• Lifestyle media and the formation of the self
  • [NT 42944] Record Type: [NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
    [NT 47261] Author: RaisboroughJayne, 1969-
    [NT 47351] Place of Publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York
    [NT 47263] Published: Palgrave Macmillan;
    [NT 47352] Year of Publication: 2011
    [NT 47264] Description: 1 online resource (viii, 185 p.)ill. :
    [NT 47266] Subject: Lifestyles. -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Mass media - Social aspects. -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Self-actualization (Psychology) -
    [NT 47266] Subject: PSYCHOLOGY - Social Psychology. -
    [NT 51458] Online resource: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230297555
    [NT 47265] Notes: Description based on print version record.
    [NT 51398] 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"--
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780230297555electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 0230297552electronic bk.
    [NT 60779] Content Note: pt. 1. Introducing lifestyle citizens pt. 2. Framing the self pt. 3. Before and after.
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