How can I remove a part of a picture and paste on a white background

I have a picture of a purse shot outside and I'd like to remove purse from the picture and layer on a white background

Sounds like you may be looking for a "Select Purse and Extract Onto White Background" function.
Instead, think more along the lines of:
Select just the purse pixels
Refine selection to handle edges better
Copy selected pixels into a new layer with a mask based on the selection
Set background to a white fill
It's going to take a *little* elbow grease, but fortunately the above operations are fairly well supported by Photoshop's tools, and it's normally a fairly quick and easy task using e.g., the Quick Selection Tool, Refine Edge button, Layer - New Fill Layer, etc.
See this particular video for how-to, but think "purse" instead of "girl's head and hair":
Masking Basics in Photoshop CS5 | The Russell Brown Show | Adobe TV
As c.pfaffenbichler has asked, please post the image and I'm sure you'll get specific pointers.
-Noel

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