num_pages: 304
description: Why doesn't self-help help ? Millions of people turn to self-improvement when they find that their lives aren't working out quite as they had imagined. The market for self-improvement products--books, audiotapes, life-makeover seminars and regimens of all kinds--is exploding, and there seems to be no end in sight for this trend. In Self-Help, Inc. , cultural critic Micki McGee asks what our seemingly insatiable demand for self-help can tell us about ourselves at the outset of this new century. This lucid and fascinating book reveals how makeover culture traps Americans in endless cycles of self-invention and overwork, and offers suggestions for how we can address the alienating conditions of modern work and family life.
language: English
title: Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
titlecomplete: Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
genres: Nonfiction, Sociology, Womens, Psychology
ratings_count: 51
publisher: Oxford University Press