Cheap Amusements

Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of -the-Century New York (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1986). Kathy Peiss describes the leisure activities of young working women living in New York during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in her book Cheap Amusements. The book explores the emergence of a young female working class and the conflict the women encountered with the "Old World" traditions. Peiss also explores the commercialization of leisure and …

…way she describes the conflicts that occur throughout the book. Any reader of history would find this book a good resource for research as well as enjoyable reading. Moreover, a researcher of sociology would find the information in the book to be of interest, especially if they are interested in the women's movement in modern America. Bibliography Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of -the-Century New York (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1986).