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02911aam a2200421 i 4500 001 0B8399126B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 151124s2016 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015030652 020 $a 1137586389 020 $a 9781137586384 035 $a (OCoLC)930576163 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d CDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HN59.2 F46 2016 100 1 $a Ferguson, Kevin L., $d 1978- $e author. 245 10 $a Eighties people : $b new lives in the American imagination / $c Kevin L. Ferguson. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2016. 300 $a xii, 193 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 2 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: The Love Affair with Labels : New Subjects in the Eighties -- The Surrogate Mother : Sed mater certissima? -- The Crack Baby : Children Fight the War on Drugs -- The Person with AIDS : Graphic Humor and Graphic Illness -- The Yuppies and the Yuckies : Anxieties of Affluence -- The Brat Pack and its Mommy : Motherhood in the Age of Yuppiebacks -- Coda: The Ventriloquy of Childhood. 651 0 $a United States $x Social conditions $y 1980- 650 0 $a Social groups $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Stereotypes (Social psychology) $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Anxiety $x History $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Self-perception $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Knowledge, Sociology of $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Social change $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Race $x History $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Social classes $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Sex role $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826045236.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0B8399126B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search