Lifestyle Media and the Formation of the Self by Raisborough, J.

Lifestyle Media and the Formation of the Self (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230242951)

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Format: Hardcover
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Lifestyle Media and the Formation of the Self by Raisborough, J.

Lifestyle Media and the Formation of the Self

$54.99
Lifestyle Media and the Formation of the Self by Raisborough, J.

Lifestyle Media and the Formation of the Self

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: J. Raisborough
ISBN-10: 0230242952
ISBN-13: 9780230242951
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/05/2011
Pages: 185
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.70d
By J. Raisborough
By J. Raisborough
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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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