Lifestyle Media in American Culture

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Lifestyle Media in American Culture is written by Maureen E. Ryan and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1315464950 (ISBN 10) and 9781315464954 (ISBN 13).

This book explores the emergence of "lifestyle" in the US, first as a term that has become an organizing principle for the self and for the structure of everyday life, and later as a pervasive form of media that encompasses a variety of domestic and self-improvement genres, from newspaper columns to design blogs. Drawing on the methodologies of cultural studies and feminist media studies, and built upon a series of case studies from newspapers, books, television programs, and blogs, it tracks the emergence of lifestyle’s discursive formation and shows its relevance in contemporary media culture. It is, in the broadest sense, about the role played by the explosion of lifestyle media texts in changing conceptualizations of selfhood and domestic life.