Self-Help, Inc. : makeover culture in American life
Micki McGee (Author)
AcknowledgementsPrologue. Covey's Daughter and Her DilemmaIntroduction. From Self-Made to Belabored1. From Calling to Vision: Spiritual, Secular and Gendered Notions2. From Power! to Personal Power!: Survivalism and the Inward Turn3. From Having It All to Simple Abundance: Gender and the Logic of Diminished Expectations4. The Self at Work: From Job-Hunters to Artist-Entrepreneurs5. At Work on the Self: The Making of the Belabored Self6. All You Can Be, or Some ConclusionsAppendix. Some Notes on MethodNotesBibliography
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9780199883684, 9780195337266, 9781602564800, 9781280427848, 0199883688, 0195337263, 1602564809, 1280427841
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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
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