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Cheap amusements : working women and leisure in New York City, 1880 to 1920 / Kathy Peiss.
LIBRA F124 .P38 1986
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peiss, Kathy Lee.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Amusements--New York (State)--New York--History.
- Amusements.
- New York (State)--New York.
- History.
- Women--New York (State)--New York--History.
- Women.
- New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1986.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Homosocial World of Working-Class Amusements 11
- Chapter 2 Leisure and Labor 34
- Chapter 3 Putting on Style 56
- Chapter 4 Dance Madness 88
- Chapter 5 The Coney Island Excursion 115
- Chapter 6 Cheap Theater and the Nickel Dumps 139
- Chapter 7 Reforming Working Women's Recreation 163.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0877223890 :
- OCLC:
- 249042001
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