{"product_id":"9781137586384","title":"Eighties People: New Lives in the American Imagination","description":"\u003ch1\u003eEighties People: New Lives in the American Imagination\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eFerguson, Kevin L.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2016-01-30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781137586384\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1057\/9781137584342\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 216cm x140cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 193\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44753294459020,"sku":"9781137586384","price":49.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781137586384.jpg?v=1775963443","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781137586384","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}