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Self-Help, Inc [electronic resource] : makeover culture in American life / Micki McGee.

By: McGee, Micki.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005Description: xi, 288 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Self-help techniques -- United States | Psychological literature -- United States | Success -- United States -- Psychological aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 158/.0973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.