Self-Help, Inc.
Subtitle: makeover culture in American life
By: Micki McGee.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780195171242
Subjects: Self-help techniques -- United States; Psychological literature -- United States; Success -- United States -- Psychological aspects
Description: xi, 288 p. : 25 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-267) and index.
Table of contents: title: From calling to vision : spiritual, secular, and gendered notions; title: From power! to personal power! : survivalism and the inward turn; title: From having it all to simple abundance : gender and the logic of diminished expectations; title: The self at work : from job-hunters to artist-entrepreneurs; title: At work on the self : the making of the belabored self; title: All you can be, or some conclusions.