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Lifestyle Media and the Formation of the Self

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...

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Main Author: Raisborough, J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Edition:1st ed. 2011.
Subjects:
Anthropology.
Ethnology.
Culture.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Communication.
Sociology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Sociology of Culture.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Social Anthropology.
Media Research.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230297555
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