Kathy Peiss

12 books

Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York by Kathy Peiss

Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York

Kathy Peiss

288 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture by Kathy Peiss

Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture

Kathy Peiss

352 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction feminism gender history challenging informative slow-paced
Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe by Kathy Peiss

Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe

Kathy Peiss

296 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Love Across the Color Line by Phoebe Mitchell, Kathy Peiss, Helen Horowitz

Love Across the Color Line

Phoebe Mitchell, Kathy Peiss, Helen Horowitz

160 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography psychology science challenging reflective medium-paced
Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality: Documents and Essays by Thomas G. Paterson, Kathy Peiss

Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality: Documents and Essays

Thomas G. Paterson, Kathy Peiss

516 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization by Alys Eve Weinbaum, Mary Louise Roberts, Lynn M. Thomas, Timothy Burke, Madeleine Y. Dong, Liz Conor, The Modern Girl around the World Research Group, Ruri Ito, Tani E. Barlow, Anne E. Gorsuch, Kathy Peiss, Barbara Sato, Uta G. Poiger, Miriam Silverberg, Priti Ramamurthy, Davarian L. Baldwin

The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization

Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

Alys Eve Weinbaum, Mary Louise Roberts, Lynn M. Thomas, Timothy Burke, Madeleine Y. Dong, Liz Conor, The Modern Girl around the World Research Group, Ruri Ito, Tani E. Barlow, Anne E. Gorsuch, Kathy Peiss, Barbara Sato, Uta G. Poiger, Miriam Silverberg, Priti Ramamurthy, Davarian L. Baldwin

448 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction essays history challenging informative slow-paced
Passion and Power: Sexuality in History by Robert A. Padgug, Christina Simmons, Kathy Peiss

Passion and Power: Sexuality in History

Robert A. Padgug, Christina Simmons, Kathy Peiss

319 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style by Kathy Peiss

Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style

Kathy Peiss

238 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Cheap Amusements:Working Women & Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York by Kathy Peiss
Cheap Amusements:Working Women & Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
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Kathy Peiss

Cheap Amusements:Working Women & Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York

Kathy Peiss

256 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

Meet Miss Subways: New York's Beauty Queens 1941-1976 by Amy Zimmer, Fiona Gardner, Kathy Peiss

Meet Miss Subways: New York's Beauty Queens 1941-1976

Amy Zimmer, Fiona Gardner, Kathy Peiss

184 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

informative inspiring medium-paced