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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: McGee, Micki. Self-Help, Inc. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 (DLC) 2004024905 (OCoLC)56942442 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Micki McGee |
ISBN: | 9780195346848 019534684X 1423734009 9781423734000 9780195171242 0195171241 1280427841 9781280427848 9786610427840 6610427844 |
OCLC Number: | 62279610 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 288 pages) : illustrations |
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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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 * Read more...


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