Kathy Peiss Explained

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

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]

Her 2020 book, Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe, received the Book History Prize from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing.

Work

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

References

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

External links

• • Kathy Peiss at University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts & Sciences
• Peiss, Kathy. "American Women and the Making of Modern Consumer Culture." The Journal for MultiMedia History, Vol. 1, No. 1, Fall 1998.