Title: Eighties people
Description: "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"--
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Anxiety, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Stereotypes (Social psychology), Social change, Social classes, Self-perception, Race, Sociology of Knowledge, Social conditions, Sex role, History, Social groups, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Stereotypes (social psychology), Knowledge, sociology of, Social classes, united states, United states, social conditions, 1980-
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century, 1980-