Cheap Amusements : Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
ISBN: 9780877225003 | 0877225001
Edition: ReprintFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Temple Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 4/6/1987
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What did young, independent women do for fun and how did they pay their way into New York City's turn-of-the-century pleasure places? Cheap Amusements is a fascinating discussion of young working women whose meager wages often fell short of bare subsistence and rarely allowed for entertainment expenses.Kathy Peiss follows working women into saloons, dance halls, Coney Island amusement parks, social clubs, and nickelodeons to explore the culture of these young women between 1880 and 1920 as expressed in leisure activities. By examining the ritua... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| The Homosocial World of Working-Class Amusements | p. 11 |
| Leisure and Labor | p. 34 |
| Putting on Style | p. 56 |
| Dance Madness | p. 88 |
| The Coney Island Excursion | p. 115 |
| Cheap Theater and the Nickel Dumps | p. 139 |
| Reforming Working Women's Recreation | p. 163 |
| Conclusion | p. 185 | ... MORE
| Notes | p. 189 |
| Index | p. 237 |
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