xiii, 175 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.

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.

0813534240 (alk. paper)

0813534259 (pbk. : alk. paper)