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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Ohio State Univ Pr
Publication date
October 8, 2008
Pages
209
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780814210932
ISBN-10
0814210937
Dimensions
1 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.05 lbs.
Original list price
$94.95
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
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Life is very much a project in the United Statesâbut not a straightforwardly individual one. A duality of individual free choice and disciplinary institutional governance is the grand national paradox. Simply beingâleading life without a bumper sticker avowing oneâs elective institutional affinitiesâseems implausible in a country consumed by the makeoverâthe idea that what you were born as need not define you forever.
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As Toby Miller writes in his introduction: âI come neither to bury the makeover nor to praise the makeover, but to criticize it, even as I stand alternately bewildered, amused, appalled, and attracted by it.â In Makeover Nation he does just that in a witty, no-holds-barred style. Miller looks at the power of various forms of knowledge about people and their emotions as they have been applied to the US population, from talk therapy to drug treatment. He is particularly interested in young peopleâin examining how childhood is constructedâand pays close attention to the much-favored (and overused) diagnosis and treatment of ADHD/ADD. He also focuses his attention on metrosexuals and right-wing Christians to disclose how these opposing groups manifest their drive toward self-creation. Miller believes that we must question the pleasures of reinvention even as we embrace them.
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Hardcover
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from Ohio State Univ Pr (October 8, 2008)
9780814210932 | details & prices | 209 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $94.95
About: Life is very much a project in the United Statesâbut not a straightforwardly individual one.
About: Life is very much a project in the United Statesâbut not a straightforwardly individual one.
2 cdr edition from Ohio State Univ Pr (October 8, 2008)
9780814291733 | details & prices | List price $14.95
About: Life is very much a project in the United Statesâbut not a straightforwardly individual one.
About: Life is very much a project in the United Statesâbut not a straightforwardly individual one.
Paperback
from Ohio State Univ Pr (October 8, 2008)
9780814251690 | details & prices | 209 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $36.95
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