| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 175 pages) : illustrations |
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Black women writers series.
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| 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 |
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Chapter 7: But Is It Black and Female?: Essence, O, and American Magazine PublishingNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
African American periodicals -- History -- 20th century
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Women's periodicals, American -- History -- 20th century
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African American periodicals -- History -- 19th century
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Women's periodicals, American -- History -- 19th century
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REFERENCE -- General.
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African American periodicals
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Women's periodicals, American
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Kulturelle Identität
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Frauenzeitschrift
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Schwärze
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813542522 |
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0813542529 |
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1283592061 |
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9781283592062 |
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9786613904515 |
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6613904511 |
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