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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Micki McGee |
| ISBN: | 0195171241 9780195171242 |
| OCLC Number: | 56942442 |
| Description: | xi, 288 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | From calling to vision : spiritual, secular, and gendered notions -- From power! to personal power! : survivalism and the inward turn -- From having it all to simple abundance : gender and the logic of diminished expectations -- The self at work : from job-hunters to artist-entrepreneurs -- At work on the self : the making of the belabored self -- All you can be, or some conclusions. |
| Responsibility: | Micki McGee. |
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<br>"McGee writes clearly and thoughtfully.... She moves seamlessly from high theory to pop psychobabble, using the former to illustrate the powers of the latter. Overall, she offers a compelling argument for resisting the self-improvement genre's worldview."--American Journal of Sociology<br>"But credit for coming up with real insight into the self-help juggernaut more properly belongs to Micki McGee, a faculty fellow at New York University and the author of Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life.... "McGee's grasp of the philosophical underpinnings... is formidable."--Salon<br>"Sociologist and cultural critic McGee offers a nuanced examination of the socioeconomic roots and attractions of self-help.... She argues, elegantly and persuasively, that self-help's individualistic approach and its false assumption of autonomy disregard the systemic social inequities that cause individual discontent and do not acknowledge social solutions that might actually help.... scholarly in Read more...
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