Lifestyle Media and the Formation of the Self

1. Being Scrooge-Like: An introduction to Lifestyle Media and the Formation of the Self
Jayne Raisborough

Part I. Introducing Lifestyle Citizens

2. When Life is not Enough: Making More of the Self
Jayne Raisborough

3. Makeover Culture: Becoming a Better Self
Jayne Raisborough

Part II. Framing the Self

4. Living Autopsies: Visualising Responsibility
Jayne Raisborough

5. Headless Zombies: Framing the Fat Body
Jayne Raisborough

Part III. Before and After

6. Being Worth It: The Deserving Self
Jayne Raisborough

7. Repatriated and Repaired: Gender’s Happy Ending
Jayne Raisborough

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology of Culture, Regional and Cultural Studies, Social Anthropology, Media Research