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 activities of working-class women living in New York City. The social experiences of these young women provide different clues about how these women constructed and gave meaning to their lives between the 1880s and 1920s. The working poor's leisure time was brief, casual, and noncommercial. Entertainment was and should be cheap. It was mostly walks, visiting friends, and reading the penny press. Lower East Side residents entertained themselves with landmarks and penny pleasures such as organ players and buskers, acrobats performed tricks, and vendors and soda machines competed for customers. Evidence suggests that families often enjoyed daily leisure, but in reality working-class social life was divided by gender. Married women's leisure activities were generally distinct from the public domain and were not significantly different from work, but were related to domestic chores and family relationships. It was during this period that, to survive, families had to send their sons and daughters into the labor market to supplement the father's income, while the mother cooked, cleaned, looked after the children and made goods to the house. The typical female wage earner of 1900 was young and single. Young single working women experienced similar time and work as men....