Makeover Nation: The United States of Reinvention
Life is very much a project in the United States--but not a straightforwardly individual one. A duality of individual free choice and disciplinary institutional governance is the grand national paradox. Simply being--leading life without a bumper sticker avowing one's elective institutional affinities--seems implausible in a country consumed by the makeover--the idea that what you were born as need not define you forever. As Toby Miller writes in his introduction: I 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. In Makeover Natio…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8142-1093-2
- EAN: 9780814210932
- Produktnummer: 4364120
- Verlag: Ohio St Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 209 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.5 cm x D2.0 cm 454 g
- Auflage: 2. A.
- Gewicht: 454
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