Book

Eighties people : new lives in the American imagination

Ferguson, Kevin L., 1978-

Overview

\"Through an examination of 1980s American cultural texts and media, Kevin L. Ferguson examines how new types of individuals were created in order to manage otherwise hidden cultural anxieties during the American 1980s. Exploring a variety of strategies for fashioning self-knowledge in the decade, this book illuminates the hidden lives of surrogate mothers, crack babies, persons with AIDS, yuppies, and brat packers. These seemingly simple stereotypes in fact concealed deeper cultural changes in issues relating to race, class, and gender. Through a range of texts, Eighties People shows how the commonplace reading of the 1980s as a superficial period of little importance disguises the decade's real imperative: a struggle for self-definition outside of the limited set of options given by postmodern theorizing\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Subject: Social groups United States History 20th century. / Stereotypes (Social psychology) United States History 20th century. / Anxiety Social aspects United States History 20th century. / Self-perception United States History 20th century. / Knowledge, Sociology of History 20th century. / Social change United States History 20th century. / Race Social aspects United States History 20th century. / Social classes United States History 20th century. / Sex role United States History 20th century. / HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies. / United States Social conditions 1980-
• ISBN: 9781137586384

Item info:

1 item available

1 item total in all locations

Holdings :

Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HN59.2.F46 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE