The making of americas beauty culture, also available from the university of pennsylvania press, and cheap amusements. Peiss received her ba from carleton college in 1975, and her phd from brown university in 1982. Kathy peiss books list of books by author kathy peiss. Cheap amusements, written by kathy peiss describes the cultural and societal changes that affected lower to lower middle class working women at the turn of. Cheap amusements is a fascinating discussion of young working women whose meager wages often fell. Gender, urban culture, and the makings of the gay male. Required reading packet the readings listed below are all in pdf format and will be available on the class moodle site. Kathy peiss follows working women into saloons, dance halls, coney island amusement parks, social clubs, and nickelodeons to explore the culture of these young women between 1880 and 1920 as. A summary of cheap amusements by kathy peiss kibin. Kathy lee peiss born 1953 is an american historian.
Peiss examines three case studies of new public leisure. Working women and leisure in turnofthecentury new york, 1986 as strikers thronged the public streets of new york city in 1909, demonstrated in parades and mass meetings, and picketed in front of factories, they challenged established assumptions about the identity and. Cheap amusements isbn 9780877225003 pdf epub kathy. Some works like roy rosenzweigs eight hours for what we will. Kathy peiss follows working women into saloons, dance halls, coney island amusement parks, social clubs, and nickelodeons to explore the culture of these young. Kathy peiss, putting on style, chapter 3 from cheap amusements philadelphia. The textile industry and the triangle factory fire. The making of americas beauty culture, and more on. C system volume information restore 3a3c753e374f4d6388d59555f76a7918 rp165 a0191263. Working women and leisure in turnofthecen tury new york by kathy peiss. Western cityscapes and american culture after 1940 berkeley, 1992, chapter 2. Kathy peiss describes the leisure activities of young working women living in new york during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in her book cheap amusements. A history of central park cornell university press, 1992 george chauncey, gay new york.
At dance halls, peiss describes the complex interplay between womens autonomy resisted attempts by middleclass reformers to mediate the kinds of dancing and dependence, particularly in the form of male treating that represented a continuum of. The dilemmas of work and leisure for women at the turnofthe. Cheap amusements takes us beyond the flat stereotypes of 19thcentury poor and laboring women peiss extensive research. Working women and leisure in turnofthecentury new york 1986 stephen meyer, the fivedollar day. What did young, independent women do for fun and how did they pay their way into new york citys turnofthecentury pleasure places. Kathy peiss follows working women into saloons, dance halls, coney island amusement parks, social clubs, and nickelodeons to explore the culture of these. The scholarly study of how americans spend their leisure time has accelerated in the past two decades.
Gender, urban culture and the making of the gay male world, 18901920 4 venus greene, race on the line. See all books authored by kathy peiss, including cheap amusements. D uring the world war ii era, italian immigrants in america encountered harsh treatment from both citizens and the government. Kathy peiss follows working women into saloons, dance halls, coney island amusement parks, social clubs, and nickelodeons to explore the culture of these young women between. Nichols professor of american history at the university of pennsylvania. By peiss, kathy author cheap amusements cheap amusements by peiss, kathy author apr061987 paperback by peiss. Cheap amusements ebook by kathy peiss 9781439905531. Download pdf cheap amusements free online new books in. Cheap amusementscheap amusements by peiss, kathy author on apr061987 paperback kathy peiss on. Andrew gyory, the significance of chinese exclusion, from major problems in asian american history, pp. Working women and leisure in turnofthecentury new york temple university press, 1986 roy rosenzweig and elizabeth blackmar, the park and the people.
Peiss is currently a professor of history at the university of massachusetts. She is a fellow of the society of american historians life. Prejudice paired with war time hysteria was directed at the italian population and resulted in the internment of several thousand immigrants, executions of prominent. In contrast to gutman and montgomery, peiss focuses on the conditions and strategies of workingclass women during the nineteenth century. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources, historian kathy peiss uncovers a vivid rich with the voices and experiences of ordinary women, hope in a jar is a. New york city and the consolidation of the american bourgeoisie, pp. Writing of early society, freud considered that there was an unmistakable tendency to keep the. Her research focuses on the history women in the workplace, the. Using the following website which examines the original trial, retry the defendants. The dramatic story of the uprising of the 20,000, the 1909 shirtwaist strike, is told through. Peiss, cheap amusements introduction, chapter one, conclusion and chapter as assigned by group. Her first book, cheap amusements 1986, explored the social life of working women in turnofthecentury new york, and a coedited anthology, passion and power 1989, surveyed the history of sexuality.
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In cheap amusements, kathy peiss studies the customs, values, public styles, and ritualized interactions expressed in leisure time of the workingclass women living in new york. Working women and leisure in turnofthecentury new york, and hope in a jar. Kathy peiss charity girls and city pleasures in new york city, between 1880 and 1920, young, unmarried, workingclass women experimented with new forms of sexuality and new types of relationships with men very much at odds with our stereotypes of victorian sexuality and also with middleclass. Working women and leisure in turnofthe century new york. The pervasiveness of heterosociality in contemporary life can lead to the obscuring of its social construction as a late development in western history. Kathy peiss, cheap amusements 3 george chauncey, gay new york. University of california, san diego professor rachel n.
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