Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life

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Acknowledgements Prologue. Covey's Daughter and Her Dilemma Introduction. From Self-Made to Belabored 1. From Calling to Vision: Spiritual, Secular and Gendered Notions 2. From Power! to Personal Power!: Survivalism and the Inward Turn 3. From Having It All to Simple Abundance: Gender and the Logic of Diminished Expectations 4. The Self at Work: From Job-Hunters to Artist-Entrepreneurs 5. At Work on the Self: The Making of the Belabored Self 6. All You Can Be, or Some Conclusions Appendix. Some Notes on Method Notes Bibliography

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