Lifestyle media and the formation of the self
By: Jayne Raisborough
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780230242951
Subjects: Social aspects; Self-actualization (Psychology); Lifestyles; Mass media
Description: ""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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-182) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction: Being Scrooge-like: An Introduction to Lifestyle Media and the Formation of Self; title: PART I INTRODUCING LIFESTYLE CITIZENS; title: When Life is not Enough: Making More of the Self; title: Makeover Culture: Becoming a Better Self; title: PART II FRAMING THE SELF; title: Living Autopsies: Visualising Responsibility; title: Headless Zombies: Framing the Fat Body; title: PART III BEFORE AND AFTER; title: Being Worth It: The Deserving Self; title: Repatriated and Repaired: Gender's Happy Ending; title: References; title: Index.