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Ladies' pages : African American women's magazines and the culture that made them
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Title
Ladies' pages : African American women's magazines and the culture that made them / Noliwe M. Rooks.
ISBN
9780813542522
0813542529
1283592061
9781283592062
9786613904515
6613904511
0813534240
9780813534244
0813534259
9780813534251
Published
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2004.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 175 pages) : illustrations
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English.
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Summary
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, mainstream magazines established ideal images of white female culture, while comparable African American periodicals were cast among the shadows. Noliwe M. Rooks & amp;rsquo;s Ladies & amp;rsquo; Pages sheds light on the most influential African American women & amp;rsquo;s magazines & amp;ndash; & amp;ndash;Ringwood & amp;rsquo;s Afro-American Journal of Fashion, Half-Century Magazine for the Colored Homemaker, Tan Confessions, Essence, and O, the Oprah Magazine & amp;ndash; & amp;ndash;and their little-known success in shaping the lives of black women. Ladies & amp;rsquo; Pages demonstrates how thes.
Variant and related titles
Black women writers. OCLC KB.
Other formats
Print version: Rooks, Noliwe M., 1963- Ladies' pages. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2004
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 28, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Scattered Pages: Magazines, Sex, and the Culture of Migration; Chapter 2: Refashioning Rape: Ringwood's Afro-American Journal of Fashion; Chapter 3: To Make a Lady Black and Bid Her Sing: Clothes, Class, and Color; Chapter 4: "Colored Faces Looking Out of Fashion Plates. Well!": Twentieth-Century Fashion, Migration, and Urbanization; Chapter 5: No Place Like Home: Domesticity, Domestic Work, and Consumerism; Chapter 6: Urban Confessions and Tan Fantasies: The Commodification of Marriage and Sexual Desire in African American Magazine Fiction.
Chapter 7: But Is It Black and Female?: Essence, O, and American Magazine PublishingNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author.
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