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Kathy Peiss

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#2858

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#4048

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#1075

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Kathy Peiss's Degrees

PhD History University of California, Berkeley
Masters History University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Kathy Lee Peiss is an American historian. She is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at The University of Pennsylvania. She is a fellow of the Society of American Historians.

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Kathy Peiss's Published Works

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Published Works

Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (1986) (561)
Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture (1998) (331)
Boundaries, Negotiation, Consciousness: Reconceptualizing Gender Relations (1985) (329)
Passion and Power: Sexuality in History (1989) (124)
On Beauty … and the History of Business (2000) (39)
“Vital Industry” and Women's Ventures: Conceptualizing Gender in Twentieth Century Business History (1998) (39)
Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style (2011) (22)
Going Public: Women in Nineteenth-Century Cultural History (1991) (21)
Educating the eye of the beholder: American cosmetics abroad (2002) (18)
Major problems in the history of American sexuality : documents and essays (2002) (13)
Cultural Policy in a Time of War: The American Response to Endangered Books in World War II (2007) (12)
Charity Girls and City Pleasures (2004) (10)
Introduction. On beauty ... and the history of business (2000) (7)
City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789–1860. By Christine Stansell. (New York: Knopf, 1986. xiv + 301 pp. $30.00.) (1987) (5)
Love across the color line : the letters of Alice Hanley to Channing Lewis (1996) (2)
Information Hunters (2019) (2)
Girls Lean Back Everywhere (2008) (2)
Women’s Past and the Currents of U.S. History (2013) (2)
Working class gender relationships and leisure in the United States, 1890-1920. (1984) (2)
Face to face : Shiseido and the manufacture of beauty 1900-2000 (2000) (1)
Sexual Histories, Sexual Politics (1992) (1)
Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe (2019) (1)
Review: Everybody’s Doin’ It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917, by Dale Cockrell, and Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheavals, by Saidiya Hartman (2020) (1)
The History That Dare Not Speak Its Name (2011) (0)
The Country of the Mind Must Also Attack (2020) (0)
1. Masks and Faces (2011) (0)
Acquisitions on a Grand Scale (2020) (0)
Book Burning—American Style (2020) (0)
7. Shades of Difference (2011) (0)
Elisabeth Gallas. A Mortuary of Books: The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust. Translated by Alex Skinner. New York: New York University Press, 2019. 416 pp. (2020) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)
Conclusion (2019) (0)
Women's Studies as an Inquiry into Gender Relations. (1983) (0)
Librarians and Collectors Go to War (2020) (0)
Minding the Store (1987) (0)
Gender Politics in Bush's America (2007) (0)
5. Reading the Riddle (2011) (0)
From Repression to Obsession (1988) (0)
Jonathan Rée, ed., A Schoolmaster's War: Harry Rée, British Agent in the French Resistance New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. 216 pp. (2021) (0)
About the Society for the Study of Social Problems (2020) (0)
Racialized and Gendered Experiences with Consumer Capitalism (2017) (0)
Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin. By Pamela Walker Laird. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. xiv + 439 PP. Index, notes, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 0-674-01907-5 (2007) (0)
Before Porn Was Legal: The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse. By Elizabeth Heineman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. xi + 225 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-32521-7 (2012) (0)
Our Work, Our Lives, Our Words. Edited by Leonore Davidoff and Belinda Westover. Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes and Noble Books, 1986. 189 pp. Hardbound, $28.50; Softbound, $12.95. (1987) (0)
3. Into the Public Eye (2011) (0)
3. Beauty Culture and Women's Commerce (2011) (0)
8. Identity and the Market (2011) (0)
Nylon: The Story of a Fashion Revolution: A Celebration of Design from Art Silk to Nylon and Thinking Fibres. Susannah Handley (2001) (0)
Not a Library, but a Large Depot of Loot (2020) (0)
Fugitive Records of War (2020) (0)
4. The Rise of the Mass Market (2011) (0)
5. Promoting the Made-Up Woman (2011) (0)
Prologue (2019) (0)
Epilogue (2019) (0)
6. Zooting Around the World (2011) (0)
Asian Americans and the Intelligence War (2022) (0)
The Coney Island Excursion (2014) (0)
Session 7: Universalism and War (2017) (0)
The Trials, Travels, and Triumphs of the ADAMS Family (2022) (0)
Review: Everybody’s Doin’ It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917, by Dale Cockrell and Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheavals, by Saidiya Hartman (2020) (0)
6. Everyday Cosmetic Practices (2011) (0)
1. Making the Suit Zoot (2011) (0)
Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1883–1920. By Mary E. Odern. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xvi, 265 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN0-8078-2215-9-Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8078-4528-0.) (1996) (0)
2. Women Who Painted (2011) (0)
More than Skin Deep (1998) (0)
Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture. Ed. by Paye Ginsburg and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. (Boston: Beacon, 1990. viii + 338 pp. Cloth, $24.95, ISBN 0-8070-4612-4. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-8070-7915-4.) (1993) (0)
Into the Melting-Pot (1986) (0)
Wives Not Slaves: Patriarchy and Modernity in the Age of Revolutions by Kirsten Sword (2022) (0)
4. From Rags to Riot (2011) (0)
2. Going to Extremes (2011) (0)
The Most Contradictory Cultural Symbol Ever (2014) (0)
The Wild Scramble for Documents (2020) (0)

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