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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Dec 31, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Self-help & self-improvement. As thoughts turn to resolutions and making a fresh start in 2015, Laurie Taylor wonders if his scepticism about self-help books and self-improvement programmes is well founded. He goes for advice to Christine Whelan - Professor in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin and a self-help author. Further enlightenment is provided by Meg John Barker - Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Open University - who has studied self-help literature dealing with sex and relationships and has also written what she describes as 'an anti self-help book'. And Rebecca Coleman - Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London - explains how TV makeover shows and online dieting sites create powerfully gendered and class-based messages about changing our bodies.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod.
Released:
Dec 31, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Book publishing - Active Citizenship: Laurie Taylor examines new research about publishing and looks at active citizenship. by Thinking Allowed