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Cheap amusements : working women and leisure in turn-of-the-century New York
- Author
- Peiss, Kathy Lee.
- Title
- Cheap amusements : working women and leisure in turn-of-the-century New York / Kathy Peiss.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1986.
- Description
- xi, 244 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Notes
- Includes index. Bibliography: p. [189]-235.
- Contents
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- The homosocial world of working-class amusements
- Leisure and labor
- Putting on style
- Dance madness
- The Coney Island Excursion
- Cheap theater and the nickel dumps
- Reforming working women's recreation.
- Kinsey subjects
- Social conditions--United States--New York (N.Y.) Social customs--United States--New York (N.Y.) Women history--New York (N.Y.) Women and employment--New York (N.Y.)
- ISBN
- 0877223890 : 9780877223894 0877225001 (pbk.) 9780877225003 (pbk.)