- 288 pages
- English
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About this book
Over the last two decades Oprah Winfrey's journey has taken her from talk show queen to-as Time Magazine has asserted-"one of the most important figures in popular culture." Through her talk show, magazine, website, seminars, charity work, and public appearances, her influence in the social, economic, and political arenas of American life is considerable and until now, largely unexamined. In The Age of Oprah, media scholar and journalist Janice Peck traces Winfrey's growing cultural impact and illustrates the fascinating parallels between her road to fame and fortune and the political-economic rise of neoliberalism in this country. While seeking to understand Oprah's ascent to the near- iconic status that she enjoys today, Peck's book provides a fascinating window into the intersection of American politics and culture over the past quarter century.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 The Age of Oprah: Culture and Politics in the Neoliberal Era
- Chapter 2 The Therapeutic Enterprise and the Quest for Women s Hearts and Minds
- Chapter 3 Backlash Politics, the Dysfunctional Self, and the Recovery Cure
- Chapter 4 Recovery and Reaganism: The Psychologization of the Political and the Politics of Pathology
- Chapter 5 Mind Cure, the Enchanted Self, and the New Liberal Covenant
- Chapter 6 āTranscending Raceā: The Racial Politics of Oprah Winfrey and New Liberalism
- Chapter 7 The Oprah Brand and the Enterprising Self
- Chapter 8 The Anxieties of the Enterprising Self and the Limits of Mind Cure in the Age of Oprah
- Oprah Winfrey Show Episodes Cited
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author