Research Catalog

Title

• Self-loathing for beginners / Lynn Phillips.

Author

Phillips, Lynn, 1945-2017

Publication

Santa Monica, Calif. : Santa Monica Press, ©2008.

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Description

211 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

Turning the self-help genre on its head, this humorous, tongue-in-cheek guidebook satirizes modern culture as it teaches how to self-loathe properly.

Subject

• Conduct of life
• Conduct of life > Humor
• Self-esteem > Humor
• Self-hate (Psychology) > Humor
• Self-help techniques
• Self-help techniques > Humor

Genre/Form

• Humor
• Nonfiction.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chapter 1 Faq 13 -- Are You A Beginner? -- How Much Self-Loathing Is Enough? -- Self-Love-Friend or Foe? -- Perpetual Motion Self-Loathing -- Free Pass -- Chapter 2 Building Blocks of Self-Loathing 27 -- Self-Loathing's Seven Essential Questions (and Their Answers) -- Chapter 3 Self-Loathing's No-Brainer-The Body 37 -- Women First -- Men Can Do it Too -- More Women -- Unisex Chapter Review -- Part II Material World 57 -- Chapter 4 Celebrity Culture 58 -- Tabs -- People Who Need People -- Porn -- Show Biz -- Chapter 5 Fashionable Self-Loather 70 -- First Impressions -- Fashion Minefield -- Don'ts, Dos, and Dids -- Chapter 6 Food for Self-Loathing 82 -- Diets -- Gorging -- Purging -- Foraging -- Dining Out with Civilized People -- Part III Interactive Self-Loathing 94 -- Chapter 7 Self-Loathing Sex! 95 -- Before -- During -- After -- Hooking up -- Chapter 8 Love and Other Romantic Involvements 110 -- Fishing for Love -- Getting Hooked on Love -- Cutting Bait -- Chapter 9 Self-Loather's Family Album 120 -- Self-Loathing of Minors -- Self-Loathing Quality Time for Adults -- Self-Loathing and Marriage -- Chapter 10 Workplace Self-Loathing 134 -- Buckling Down -- Horizontal Motion -- Vertical Promotion -- Chapter 11 Social Self-Loather 146 -- Act Locally -- Act Globally -- Part IV Self-Loathing Elite 162 -- Chapter 12 Self-Loathing Dabbles in the Arts 163 -- Fine Art -- Performing Arts-Theater, Dance, and Music -- Dead Trees -- Chapter 13 Spiritual Self-Loather 178 -- World Religion -- West -- East -- Chapter 14 All in Your Mind 190 -- Meta-Self-Loathing -- Ancient Philosophy and Self-Loathing -- Chapter 15 Endgame 200 -- Old Age -- Decline -- Fall -- Death.

ISBN

• 9781595800299
• 1595800298

LCCN

2007041437

OCLC

154714348

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library