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Womanly Pursuits In a perspective both fun and informative, Kathy Peiss not only brings us a detailed description of the various amusements women experienced at the turn of the century New York, but is also able to delineate the importance of these women's lives to the growth and reorientation of American culture. This is a task that, when truly grasped, is considered an eye-opening adventure at the very least. Cheap Amusements spreads over a fairly narrow time period from 1880 to 1920 and defines the customs, values, and social experiences that shaped the daily lives of working women. Peiss launches her account of working women by introducing the pattern of sexual division of labor and leisure between married men and women, which ultimately plays a key role throughout the rest of the novel. Peiss does a remarkable job of outlining the differences between the two sexes, and is...

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