Lifestyle Media and the Formation of the Self
Raisborough, Jayne
ISBN 10: 0230242952 ISBN 13: 9780230242951
Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
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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.
About the Author:
JAYNE RAISBOROUGH Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Science at the University of Brighton, UK. Her work explores the contextual and emotional dynamics of selfhood. She co-edited Risk, Identities and the Everyday and her current work explores lifestyle TV, media representations of death and middle-class sensibilities.
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Title: Lifestyle Media and the Formation of the Self
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 2011
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New