Kathy Peiss
Biographic Data
| ID | 5711077 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathy Peiss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathy |
| FAMILY NAME | Peiss |
| SIGNATURE | PEISS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 194 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Strangers on a Plane
Journal Article Strangers on a Plane Get access Brooke L. Blower. Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 560 pp. $34.95 (hardcover). Kathy Peiss Kathy Peiss e-mail: [email protected]). Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, dhae039, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhae039 Published: 10 June 2024
Wives Not Slaves: Patriarchy and Modernity in the Age of Revolutions by Kirsten Sword
Wives Not Slaves places marital disputes at the center of the history of patriarchy in the British Atlantic and early United States. Tales of deserting wives and abusive husbands, local court battles, and public accusations—the gendered conflicts of everyday life—show how patriarchy retained its grip and resisted efforts to transform it. The book’s subtitle raises expectations of a broader study and even an interdisciplinary one. Instead, Sword f…
Gender Politics in Bush's America
En dépit de ce qu’ont pu avancer nombre de critiques, la « guerre menée contre les femmes » n’est peut-être pas ce que l’on retiendra d’abord du quarante-troisième président dont la réputation est aujourd’hui endommagée durablement par la gestion désastreuse de la guerre en Irak, par la défense de la torture et de la détention illimitée, ainsi que par l’échec de la remise en état de la Nouvelle-Orléans. Pourtant il faut reconnaître que les questi…
Gender Politics in Bush’s America
On Beauty … and the History of Business
Beauty and business seem opposite terms but in fact have had an important and consequential relationship that business historians are only now exploring. This paper sketches several major themes and approaches to the topic. The first is the emergence of a large sector of the economy devoted to selling beauty aids, fashions, bodily care, and style to American women and men. Another is the deployment of beauty as a business strategy—in creating bra…
Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture
Journal Article Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture. By Kathy Peiss. (New York: Metropolitan, 1998. xii, 334 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8050-5550-9.) Get access Angel Kwolek-Folland Angel Kwolek-Folland University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 284–285, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567512 Published: 01 June…
Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery
Journal Article Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery. By Elizabeth Haiken. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xii, 370 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8018-5763-5.) Get access Kathy Peiss Kathy Peiss University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1113–1114, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567307 Publi…
Vital Industry” and Women's Ventures: Conceptualizing Gender in Twentieth Century Business History
In 1935 Fortune magazine published a series of articles on “Women in Business” whose true subject was the absence of women in business. Published anonymously but written by Archibald MacLeish, the articles distinguished between the relatively few women in “general business” or “business proper” and the greater number “engaged in the business exploitation of femininity.” MacLeish asserted that this was “not merely an arbitrary” distinction, for bu…
Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920
Journal Article 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.) Get access Kathy Peiss Kathy Peiss University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of …
Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture
Journal Article 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.) Get access Kathy Peiss Kathy Peiss University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1…
Sexual Histories, Sexual Politics
Men and Women: A History of Constume, Gender, and Power
“Men and Women: A History of Costume, Gender, and Power.” National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Constitution Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20560. Temporary exhibition, Sept. 20, 1989–Feb. 25, 1991. Barbara Clark Smith, curator; Claudia Brush Kidwell, costume curator; James Sims, designer. Men and Women: Dressing Get access Katherine C. Grier Katherine C. Grier University of Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
Passion and Power: Sexuality in History
Passion and Power: Sexuality in History
Part I: Sexuality and Historical Meaning 1. Passion and Power: An Introdtion - Kathy Peiss and Christina Simmons 2. Sexual Matters: On Conceptualizing Sexuality in History - Robert A. Padgug Part II: Emergence of Modern Sexuality, 1790 to 1930 3. The Life of a Citizen in the Hands of a Woman: Sexual Assault in New York City, 1790 to 1820 - Marybeth Hamilton Arnold 4. Charity Girls and City Pleasurer: Historical Notes on Working Class Sexuality, 1…
Culture de masse et divisions sociales: Le cas de l'industrie americaine des cosmetiques
w I y a longtemps que le concept de (( culture de masse >> est utilise pour decrire | les formations culturelles decoulant de la production et de la distribution de s masse. Les etudes consacrees a la culture de masse ont souvent privilegie les grands moyens de communication, qui, tels le cinema et la television, constituaient des exemples de productions centralisees et de produits standardises s'adressant a une large population, par-del3 les bar…
Culture de masse et divisions sociales: Le cas de l'industrie américaine des cosmétiques
Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
The Homosocial World of Working-Class Amusements 2. Leisure and Labor 3. Putting on Style 4. Dance Madness 5. The Coney Island Excursion 6. Cheap Theater and the Nickel Dumps 7. Reforming Working Women's Recreation Conclusion Notes Index
City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860
Journal Article City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789–1860. By Christine Stansell. (New York: Knopf, 1986. xiv + 301 pp. $30.00.) Get access Kathy Peiss Kathy Peiss University of Massachusetts, Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 3, December 1987, Pages 1057–1058, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902188 Published: 01 December 1987
Work, Protest, and Culture: New Work on Working Women's History
Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
Journal Article Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of the-Century New York. By Kathy Peiss. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. xi + 244 pp. $24.95.) Get access Susan Estabrook Kennedy Susan Estabrook Kennedy Virginia Commonwealth University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 3, December 1986, Pages 783–784, https://doi.org/10.2307/19030…
Boundaries, Negotiation, Consciousness: Reconceptualizing Gender Relations
Boundaries, Negotiation, Consciousness: Reconceptualizing Gender Relations Get access Judith M. Gerson, Judith M. Gerson Correspondence to: Gerson, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Kathy Peiss Kathy Peiss Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 32, Issue 4, 1 April 198…
Boundaries, Negotiation, Consciousness: Reconceptualizing Gender Relations
Boundaries, Negotiation, Consciousness: Reconceptualizing Gender Relations Get access Judith M. Gerson, Judith M. Gerson Correspondence to: Gerson, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Kathy Peiss Kathy Peiss Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 32, Issue 4, 1 April 198…
Vital Industry” and Women's Ventures: Conceptualizing Gender in Twentieth Century Business History
In 1935 Fortune magazine published a series of articles on “Women in Business” whose true subject was the absence of women in business. Published anonymously but written by Archibald MacLeish, the articles distinguished between the relatively few women in “general business” or “business proper” and the greater number “engaged in the business exploitation of femininity.” MacLeish asserted that this was “not merely an arbitrary” distinction, for bu…
Passion and Power: Sexuality in History
Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture
Journal Article Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture. By Kathy Peiss. (New York: Metropolitan, 1998. xii, 334 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8050-5550-9.) Get access Angel Kwolek-Folland Angel Kwolek-Folland University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 284–285, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567512 Published: 01 June…
Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery
Journal Article Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery. By Elizabeth Haiken. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xii, 370 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8018-5763-5.) Get access Kathy Peiss Kathy Peiss University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1113–1114, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567307 Publi…
Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
Sexual Histories, Sexual Politics
Boundaries, Negotiation, Consciousness: Reconceptualizing Gender Relations
Boundaries, Negotiation, Consciousness: Reconceptualizing Gender Relations Get access Judith M. Gerson, Judith M. Gerson Correspondence to: Gerson, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Kathy Peiss Kathy Peiss Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 32, Issue 4, 1 April 198…
Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
Journal Article Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of the-Century New York. By Kathy Peiss. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. xi + 244 pp. $24.95.) Get access Susan Estabrook Kennedy Susan Estabrook Kennedy Virginia Commonwealth University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 3, December 1986, Pages 783–784, https://doi.org/10.2307/19030…
Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
The Homosocial World of Working-Class Amusements 2. Leisure and Labor 3. Putting on Style 4. Dance Madness 5. The Coney Island Excursion 6. Cheap Theater and the Nickel Dumps 7. Reforming Working Women's Recreation Conclusion Notes Index
City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860
Journal Article City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789–1860. By Christine Stansell. (New York: Knopf, 1986. xiv + 301 pp. $30.00.) Get access Kathy Peiss Kathy Peiss University of Massachusetts, Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 3, December 1987, Pages 1057–1058, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902188 Published: 01 December 1987
Work, Protest, and Culture: New Work on Working Women's History
Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
Culture de masse et divisions sociales: Le cas de l'industrie americaine des cosmetiques
w I y a longtemps que le concept de (( culture de masse >> est utilise pour decrire | les formations culturelles decoulant de la production et de la distribution de s masse. Les etudes consacrees a la culture de masse ont souvent privilegie les grands moyens de communication, qui, tels le cinema et la television, constituaient des exemples de productions centralisees et de produits standardises s'adressant a une large population, par-del3 les bar…
Culture de masse et divisions sociales: Le cas de l'industrie américaine des cosmétiques
Men and Women: A History of Constume, Gender, and Power
“Men and Women: A History of Costume, Gender, and Power.” National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Constitution Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20560. Temporary exhibition, Sept. 20, 1989–Feb. 25, 1991. Barbara Clark Smith, curator; Claudia Brush Kidwell, costume curator; James Sims, designer. Men and Women: Dressing Get access Katherine C. Grier Katherine C. Grier University of Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
Passion and Power: Sexuality in History
Passion and Power: Sexuality in History
Part I: Sexuality and Historical Meaning 1. Passion and Power: An Introdtion - Kathy Peiss and Christina Simmons 2. Sexual Matters: On Conceptualizing Sexuality in History - Robert A. Padgug Part II: Emergence of Modern Sexuality, 1790 to 1930 3. The Life of a Citizen in the Hands of a Woman: Sexual Assault in New York City, 1790 to 1820 - Marybeth Hamilton Arnold 4. Charity Girls and City Pleasurer: Historical Notes on Working Class Sexuality, 1…
Sexual Histories, Sexual Politics
Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture
Journal Article 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.) Get access Kathy Peiss Kathy Peiss University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1…
Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920
Journal Article 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.) Get access Kathy Peiss Kathy Peiss University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of …
Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery
Journal Article Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery. By Elizabeth Haiken. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xii, 370 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8018-5763-5.) Get access Kathy Peiss Kathy Peiss University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1113–1114, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567307 Publi…
Vital Industry” and Women's Ventures: Conceptualizing Gender in Twentieth Century Business History
In 1935 Fortune magazine published a series of articles on “Women in Business” whose true subject was the absence of women in business. Published anonymously but written by Archibald MacLeish, the articles distinguished between the relatively few women in “general business” or “business proper” and the greater number “engaged in the business exploitation of femininity.” MacLeish asserted that this was “not merely an arbitrary” distinction, for bu…
Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture
Journal Article Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture. By Kathy Peiss. (New York: Metropolitan, 1998. xii, 334 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8050-5550-9.) Get access Angel Kwolek-Folland Angel Kwolek-Folland University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 284–285, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567512 Published: 01 June…
On Beauty … and the History of Business
Beauty and business seem opposite terms but in fact have had an important and consequential relationship that business historians are only now exploring. This paper sketches several major themes and approaches to the topic. The first is the emergence of a large sector of the economy devoted to selling beauty aids, fashions, bodily care, and style to American women and men. Another is the deployment of beauty as a business strategy—in creating bra…
Gender Politics in Bush's America
En dépit de ce qu’ont pu avancer nombre de critiques, la « guerre menée contre les femmes » n’est peut-être pas ce que l’on retiendra d’abord du quarante-troisième président dont la réputation est aujourd’hui endommagée durablement par la gestion désastreuse de la guerre en Irak, par la défense de la torture et de la détention illimitée, ainsi que par l’échec de la remise en état de la Nouvelle-Orléans. Pourtant il faut reconnaître que les questi…
Gender Politics in Bush’s America
Wives Not Slaves: Patriarchy and Modernity in the Age of Revolutions by Kirsten Sword
Wives Not Slaves places marital disputes at the center of the history of patriarchy in the British Atlantic and early United States. Tales of deserting wives and abusive husbands, local court battles, and public accusations—the gendered conflicts of everyday life—show how patriarchy retained its grip and resisted efforts to transform it. The book’s subtitle raises expectations of a broader study and even an interdisciplinary one. Instead, Sword f…
Strangers on a Plane
Journal Article Strangers on a Plane Get access Brooke L. Blower. Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 560 pp. $34.95 (hardcover). Kathy Peiss Kathy Peiss e-mail: [email protected]). Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, dhae039, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhae039 Published: 10 June 2024
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