Lifestyle Media and the Formation of the Self

Jayne Raisborough

Palgrave Macmillan

2011

192 páginas

6h 24m

ISBN-13: 9780230242951

Inglês

"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.