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Ladies' pages : African American women's magazines and the culture that made them
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- Creator
- Noliwe M. Rooks
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2004]
- ©2004
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 175 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813534244, 9781283592062, 9780813534251, 0813534259, 9780813542522, 9786613904515, 0813534240, 1283592061, 0813542529, 6613904511
- OCLC
- ocm52942808, ocn636443300, ocn804665144
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-168) and index.
- 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