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Author:

Rooks, Noliwe M., 1963-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Rutgers University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xiii, 175 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

African American periodicals--History--20th century.
Women's periodicals, American--History--20th century.
African American periodicals--History--19th century.
Women's periodicals, American--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

9780813534251 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813534259 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813534244 (alk. paper)
0813534240 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52942808

LCCN:

2003018868

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)