Ladies' pages : African American women's magazines and the culture that made them / Noliwe M. Rooks.

Author/creator Rooks, Noliwe, 1963-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2004.
Descriptionxiii, 175 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Contents Scattered pages: magazines, sex, and the culture of migration -- 2. Refashioning rape: Ringwood's Afro-American journal of fashion -- 3. To make a lady Black and bid her sing: clothes, class, and color -- 4. "Colored faces looking out of fashion plates. Well!": twentieth-century fashion, migration, and urbanization -- 5. No place like home: domesticity, domestic work, and consumerism -- 6. Urban confessions and tan fantasies: the commodification of marriage and sexual desire in African American magazine fiction -- 7. But is it Black and female?: Essence, O, and American magazine publishing.
Local noteLittle-344730--305131050720R
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2003018868
ISBN0813534240 (alk. paper)
ISBN0813534259 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PN4882.5 .R66 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold