Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
Micki McGee
Abstract
Why doesn't self-help help? This book puts forward this paradoxical question as it looks at a world where the market for self-improvement products—books, audiotapes, and extreme makeovers—is exploding, and there seems to be no end in sight. Rather than seeing narcissism at the root of the self-help craze, as others have contended, the author shows a nation relying on self-help culture for advice on how to cope in an increasingly volatile and competitive work world. The book reveals how makeover culture traps Americans in endless cycles of self-invention and overwork as they struggle to stay ah ... More
Keywords: self-help, self-improvement products, extreme makeovers, narcissism, self-invention, overwork, audiotapes, advice, makeover culture, restructuring economic order
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2005 | Print ISBN-13: 9780195171242 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2012 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195171242.001.0001 |
