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Hi Everyone!

So over the past few days I have been doing tons and tons of research and have been really getting into it!  My two most informative books are Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure and Cheap Amusements.  Here are just a few quotes that I was really interested to find!:

"Specifically, working women's consumption of fiction and fashion engaged their identities as workers, as women, and as immigrants."
-Enstad,  Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure


"When both Jewish and Italian immigrants embraced American fashions, they imbued them with meanings rooted in a collective memory of oppression."
- Enstad

"Film became more than an object or a narrative in women's lives; it became part of their imaginative landscape and was integral to their identities."
-Enstad

"[...] those developed in this setting a shared and public culture, which legitimated the desires and behaviors in young women's leisure."
-Peiss, Cheap Amusements

"It was in leisure that women played with identity, trying on new images and roles, appropriating the cultural forms around them- clothing, music, language- to pusha t the boundaries of immigrant, working class life."
-Piess

I have tons more and lots of info but that is just a glimpse into what I have found!