Books written by Kathy Peiss
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Cheap Amusements
255- 290; Robert Snow and David Wright, "Coney Island: A Case Study in Popular Culture and Technical Change," Journal of Popular Culture 9 (Spring 1976): 960-975; Pilot and Ransom, Sodom by the Sea; Edo McCullough, Good Old Coney ...
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Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style
The zoot suit was a form of exhibitionism for those who had no other means of expression, akin to Bigger Thomas, the troubled, violent protagonist of Richard Wright's Native Son. Cayton worried that conventional leaders would have ...
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Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture
I. B. (firm), 162, 163, 165—66 Williams, Mary, 63 Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 39 Willis, Sara, 23 window trimming, 101 Wolf, Naomi, 269 Woman's Cooperative Toilet Company see Bertha Benz Womanis Home Companion, 124, 125, 171, 194 “woman's ...
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Men and Women: A History of Costume, Gender, and Power
Men and Women: A History of Costume, Gender, and Power
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Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe
Douglas Waples, “Communications,” American Journal of Sociology 47 (1942): 917. John V. Richardson Jr., “Douglas Waples (1893–1978),” Journal of Library History 15 (Winter, 1980): 76–83. Steven Karetsky, Reading Research and ...
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Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture
On the media's mixed messages , see Susan Douglas , Where the Girls Are : Growing Up Female with the Mass Media ( New York : Times Books , 1994 ) . 24. On children's cosmetics , interview with Martin Greenfield ; “ Toiletries and ...
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Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe
When the war ended, they found looted collections hidden in cellars and caves. Their mission was to document, exploit, preserve, and restitute these works, and even, in the case of Nazi literature, to destroy them.
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Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe
When the war ended, they found looted collections hidden in cellars and caves. Their mission was to document, exploit, preserve, and restitute these works, and even, in the case of Nazi literature, to destroy them.