| Description |
xiii, 175 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
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. |
| Subject |
African American periodicals -- History -- 20th century.
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African American periodicals. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Women's periodicals, American -- History -- 20th century.
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Women's periodicals, American. |
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African American periodicals -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Women's periodicals, American -- History -- 19th century.
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| ISBN |
0813534259 paperback alkaline paper |
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0813534240 alkaline paper |
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