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Author Peck, Janice, author.

Title The age of Oprah : cultural icon for the neoliberal era / Janice Peck
Published Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016

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Contents The age of Oprah : culture and politics in the neoliberal era -- The therapeutic enterprise and the quest for women's hearts and minds -- Backlash politics, the dysfunctional self, and the recovery cure -- Recovery and Reaganism : the psychologization of the political and the politics of pathology -- Mind cure, the enchanted self, and the new liberal convenant -- "Transcending race" : the racial politics of Oprah Winfrey and new liberalism -- The Oprah brand and the enterprising self -- The anxieties of the enterprising self and the limits of mind cure in the age of Oprah
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Originally published in 2008 by Paradigm Publishers
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 13, 2016)
Subject Winfrey, Oprah -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Winfrey, Oprah fast
Oprah Winfrey show (Television program) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93075692
Oprah Winfrey show (Television program) fast
Subject African American television personalities.
African American women entertainers.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
African American television personalities
African American women entertainers
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317264057
1317264053