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Self-Help, Inc. : makeover culture in American life /

McGee, Micki.

Self-Help, Inc. : makeover culture in American life / Micki McGee. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. - xi, 288 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-267) and index.

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.

0195171241 9780195171242

2004024905


Self-help techniques--United States.
Psychological literature--United States.
Success--Psychological aspects.--United States

BF632 / .M36 2005

158/.0973

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