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Cheap Amusements by Kathy Peiss
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36What did young, independent women do for fun and how did they pay their way into New York City's turn-of-the-century pleasure places? Cheap Amusements is a fascinating discussion of young working... -
Passion and Power: Sexuality in History by Kathy Peiss 9780877226376
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48"Passion and Power" brings together some of the most recent and innovative writings on the history of sexuality and explores the experiences, ideas, and conflicts that have shaped the emergence of... -
Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture by Kathy Peiss
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a "kitchen physic," as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a... -
Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style by Kathy Peiss 9780812223033
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47ZOOT SUIT (n.): the ultimate in clothes. The only totally and truly American civilian suit. -Cab Calloway, The Hepster's Dictionary, 1944 Before the fashion statements of hippies, punks, or... -
Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe by Kathy Peiss
Booksplease Price: £34.37While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to... -
The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization by Alys Eve Weinbaum 9780822343059
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.19During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy, always fashionable appearance in city streets and... -
Commodifying Everything: Relationships of the Market Susan Strasser 9780415935913
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Commodification refers most explicitly to the activities of turning things into commodities and of commercializing that which is not commercial in essence. The mass marketing of pets, the rise of the... -
The Gender and Consumer Culture Reader by Jennifer R. Scanlon 9780814781326
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.12What is the relationship between gender and consumerism? Jennifer Scanlon gathers a collection of readings and archival materials to explore the multiple and contradictory ways in which women and men... -
The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York by Robert W. Snyder 9781566632980
Booksplease Price: £16.98This entertaining and enlightening book depicts the rise of popular culture in America by brilliantly recapturing the essence and commercial trappings of one of its most vital forms of... -
The Girls' History and Culture Reader: The Twentieth Century: The 20th Century by Miriam Forman-Brunell 9780252077685
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01The Girls' History and Culture Reader: The Twentieth Century provides scholars, instructors, and students with the most influential essays that have defined the field of American girls' history and... -
A Cultural History of Marriage in the Modern Age by Professor Emeritus Christina Simmons 9781350355668
Booksplease Price: £30.98Spanning cultures across the 20th century, this volume explores how marriage, especially in the West, was disestablished as the primary institution organizing social life. In the developing world,... -
Talk about Sex: How Sex Ed Battles Helped Ignite the Right by Janice Irvine 9781439924211
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £74.27Praise for Talk about Sex"Must reading for scholars, sexuality researchers, activists, and public policy and public health planners engaged in efforts to promote education on sex, sexually... -
Globalizing Beauty: Consumerism and Body Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century by Hartmut Berghoff 9781137299703
RRP: £114.00Booksplease Price: £102.20This volume aims to advance our understanding of beauty's role in modern consumer societies by bringing together fresh scholarship that addresses a common set of questions from a variety of... -
European Modernism and the Information Society: Informing the Present, Understanding the Past by W. Boyd Rayward 9781138253414
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £55.28Uniting a team of international and interdisciplinary scholars, this volume considers the views of early twentieth-century European thinkers on the creation, dissemination and management of publicly... -
Talk about Sex: How Sex Ed Battles Helped Ignite the Right by Janice Irvine
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Praise for Talk about Sex"Must reading for scholars, sexuality researchers, activists, and public policy and public health planners engaged in efforts to promote education on sex, sexually... -
Woman: The American History of an Idea Lillian Faderman 9780300271140
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.62A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century"Exhaustively researched and finely written."-Alexandra Jacobs, New York... -
Woman: The American History of an Idea by Lillian Faderman
Booksplease Price: £26.61A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century"Exhaustively researched and finely written."-Alexandra Jacobs, New York... -
Hope and Danger in the New South City: Working-class Women and Urban Development in Atlanta, 1890-1940 by Georgina Hickey 9780820327723
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £37.85For Atlanta, the early decades of the twentieth century brought chaotic economic and demographic growth. Women-black and white-emerged as a visible new component of the city's population. As maids... -
The Angel in the Marketplace: Adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America Ellen Wayland-Smith 9780226486321
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £23.73The popular image of a mid-century ad woman is of a feisty girl beating men at their own game, a female Horatio Alger protagonist battling her way through the sexist workplace. But before the... -
Making Marriage Modern: Women's Sexuality from the Progressive Era to World War II by Christina Simmons 9780195064117
Booksplease Price: £55.78Making Marriage Modern explains the fierce debates among whites and African Americans about American women's sexuality in the early twentieth century that set an older motherhood-centered ideal... -
Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America Rachel E. Walker 9780226836782
Booksplease Price: £24.80Examining the history of phrenology and physiognomy, Beauty and the Brain proposes a bold new way of understanding the connection between science, politics, and popular culture in early America. ... -
Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America by Rachel E. Walker 9780226822563
Booksplease Price: £40.22Examining the history of phrenology and physiognomy, Beauty and the Brain proposes a bold new way of understanding the connection between science, politics, and popular culture in early America. ... -
Making Marriage Modern: Women's Sexuality from the Progressive Era to World War II by Christina Simmons 9780199874033
Booksplease Price: £45.03The nineteenth-century middle-class ideal of the married woman was of a chaste and diligent wife focused on being a loving mother, with few needs or rights of her own. The modern woman, by contrast,... -
Strange Bedfellows: Marriage in the Age of Women's Liberation Alison Lefkovitz 9781512828771
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36The impact of law and politics on efforts to redefine family and marriage without relying on traditional gender norms In the inaugural issue of Ms. Magazine, the feminist activist Judy Syfers... -
Strange Bedfellows: Marriage in the Age of Women's Liberation by Alison Lefkovitz
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.90In the inaugural issue of Ms. Magazine, the feminist activist Judy Syfers proclaimed that she "would like a wife," offering a wry critique of the state of marriage in modern America. After all, she... -
Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin by Pamela Walker Laird
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £22.50Redefining the way we view business success, Pamela Laird demolishes the popular American self-made story as she exposes the social dynamics that navigate some people toward opportunity and steer... -
Plucked: A History of Hair Removal by Rebecca M. Herzig
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £68.95Uncovers the history of hair removal practices and sheds light on the prolific culture of beauty From the clamshell razors and homemade lye depilatories used in colonial America to the diode lasers... -
Plucked: A History of Hair Removal by Rebecca M. Herzig 9781479852819
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Uncovers the history of hair removal practices and sheds light on the prolific culture of beauty From the clamshell razors and homemade lye depilatories used in colonial America to the diode lasers...