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Eighties People - New Lives in the American Imagination (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2090)
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Eighties People - New Lives in the American Imagination (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2090)
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Through an examination of 1980s America 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.
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