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Kathy Peiss

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Kathy Peiss is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on modern American cultural history and the history of American sexuality, women, and gender. Her research has examined the history of working women; working-class and interracial sexuality; leisure, style, and popular culture; the beauty industry in the U.S. and abroad; and libraries, information, and American cultural policy during World War II. She is particularly interested in the ways culture shapes the everyday lives and popular beliefs of Americans across time.

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Average rating: 3.79 · 1,952 ratings · 185 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors

	Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York 3.81 avg rating — 838 ratings — published 1985 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture 3.88 avg rating — 482 ratings — published 1998 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe 3.51 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization by Alys Eve Weinbaum (Contributor), Lynn M. Thomas (Contributor), Priti Ramamurthy (Contributor) 4.13 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality: Documents and Essays (Major Problems in American History Series) by Kathy Peiss (Editor), Thomas G. Paterson 4.09 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style 3.64 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Passion and Power: Sexuality in History by Kathy Peiss (Editor), Christina Simmons (Editor) 3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1989 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Major Problem In History Of American Sexuality Plus Petry The Street 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Uncle, the Librarian-Spy 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America.(Book Review): An article from: The Historian 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“When asked how much time she invested in taking care of her body, Edith Enders, married to an abusive husband, scrawled, “not as much as I would were I a free citizen or as I did before I was in bondage to a despot.”
― Kathy Peiss, Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture

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“Newly installed as Librarian of Congress in October 1939, MacLeish pondered the news from abroad with the mounting sense that time was running out, as he put it, “not like the sand in a glass, but like the blood in an opened artery.” That month, in a speech at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, he spoke out on the importance of libraries in the contemporary crisis. “We will need to educate people to embrace democratic culture,” he told the gathering, “or they will have the ‘nonculture,’ the obscurantism, the superstition,”
― Kathy Peiss, Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe

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“Product demonstrations, long used within beauty culture, were embraced by mass marketers, not only to sell specific brands but to acclimate women to systematic cosmetics use .”
― Kathy Peiss, Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture

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