The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

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Turner, Ted
Williams, Robin
Winfrey, Oprah
Wonder Years, The


Terrorism
Air India Flight 182 bombing
Anderson, Terry
Beirut bombings
Berg, Alan
Canadian Caper
Iranian hostage crisis
Klinghoffer, Leon
Libya bombing
Pan Am Flight 103 bombing
Terrorism
Tylenol murders
West Berlin discotheque bombing


Theater & Dance
Ballet
Break dancing
Broadway musicals
Cats
Dance, popular
Flashdance
Heidi Chronicles, The
Henley, Beth
Hip-hop and rap
Hwang, David Henry
Jackson, Michael
Literature in Canada
Literature in the United States


Madonna
Mamet, David
Performance art
Phantom of the Opera, The
Shepard, Sam
Theater
Torch Song Trilogy
Wilson, August

Transportation
Air India Flight 182 bombing
Air traffic controllers’ strike
Car alarms
Cerritos plane crash
Chrysler Corporation federal rescue
De Lorean, John
Gimli Glider
Iacocca, Lee
Minivans
Pan Am Flight 103 bombing
Sioux City plane crash
Stealth fighter
Voyagerglobal flight

Women’s Issues
Abortion
Affirmative action
Auel, Jean M.
Biological clock
Cagney and Lacey
Central Park jogger case
Color Purple, The
Craft, Christine

Designing Women
Domestic violence
Dworkin, Andrea
École Polytechnique massacre
Fatal Attraction
Feminism
Ferraro, Geraldine
Gender gap in voting
Glass ceiling
Go-Go’s, The
Golden Girls, The
Handmaid’s Tale, The
Heidi Chronicles, The
Henley, Beth
Madonna
Marriage and divorce
Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson
Mommy track
O’Connor, Sandra Day
Pauley, Jane
Pornography
Power dressing
Rape
Ride, Sally
Roberts v. United States Jaycees
Sauvé, Jeanne
Sexual harassment
Turner, Tina
Valley girls
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
Women in rock music
Women in the workforce
Women’s rights

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