Peiss, Kathy. (1986). Cheap entertainment. New York: Temple University. In Cheap Amusements, Kathy Peiss studies the customs, values, public styles, and ritualized interactions expressed in the leisure time of working-class women living in New York. The social experiences of these young women provide several clues to the ways in which these women constructed and gave meaning to their lives between the years 1880-1920. The recreational activities of the working poor were brief, casual, and noncommercial. Entertainment was and should be cheap. It consisted mainly of walking, visiting friends and reading newspapers. The people of the Lower East Side entertained themselves with shows of interest and penny pleasures as organ grinders and street performers, acrobats performed tricks, and soda vendors and dispensers competed for customers. Evidence suggests that families often enjoyed daily leisure, but in reality working-class social life was gendered. Married women's leisure time tended to be separate from the public sphere and was not much different from work, but was tied to domestic duties and family relationships. It was during this period that to survive, families had to send their sons and daughters to work to supplement the father's earnings, while the mother cooked, cleaned, took care of the children and produced manufactured goods at home. The typical wage-earning woman of 1900 was young and single. Young single working women experienced similar time and work as men....