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Kathy Peiss

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Kathy Peiss

Kathy Lee Peiss (born 1953) is an American historian. She is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at The University of Pennsylvania.[1] She is a fellow of the Society of American Historians.[2]

Life

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Peiss received her BA from Carleton College in 1975, and her PhD from Brown University in 1982.[3] Her research focuses on the history women in the workplace, the history of American sexuality, and gender.[4] She is the author of Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York and Hope in a Jar: The Making of American Beauty Culture, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award.[5][6] Peiss was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002.[7]

Work

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  • Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN 978-0190944612.
  • Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2011. ISBN 978-0812223033.
  • Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality: Documents and Essays. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002. ISBN 978-0395903841.
  • Hope in a Jar: The Making of American Beauty Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0812221671.
  • Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York. Brown University, 1982. OCLC 10265094.

References

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  1. ^ "Kathy Peiss | Department of History". www.history.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  2. ^ "Kathy Peiss". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. 2012-03-16. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
  3. ^ "AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE MAKING OF MODERN CONSUMER CULTURE, Kathy Peiss". www.albany.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  4. ^ "Kathy Peiss | Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies". www.sas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  5. ^ "Kathy Peiss | Department of History". www.history.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  6. ^ "October 5: Kathy Peiss on "Bookmen at War: Libraries, Intelligence, and Cultural Policy in World War II" | National History Center". National History Center. 2015-09-30. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  7. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Kathy Peiss". www.gf.org. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
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