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

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 Amer...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rooks, Noliwe, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2004.
Colección:Black women writers series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.