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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 Penn, 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 that culture shapes the everyday lives and popular beliefs of Americans across time.

Kathy Peiss

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Website: Go to Website

Kathy Peiss is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at Penn, 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 that culture shapes the everyday lives and popular beliefs of Americans across time.

Books from Kathy Peiss

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

3.8/5 ( ratings)

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

3.4/5 ( ratings)

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

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

Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Passion and Power: Sexuality in History

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Men and Women: A History of Costume, Gender, and Power

For Fun and Profit: The Transformation of Leisure into Consumption

2.5/5 ( ratings)

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

2.5/5 ( ratings)