Women's Magazines in Print and New Media

Noliwe Rooks is Associate Professor in Africana Studies and Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies at Cornell University.Victoria Rose Pass is Assistant Professor of Art History at Salisbury University.Ayana K. Weekley is an Assistant Professor in the Women's and Gender Studies program at Grand Valley State University.

• Introduction: Reading Race and Gender/Writing Identity and Culture[Noliwe Rooks]Section I: Narrative Constructions of Race and GenderIntroduction to Section I[Ayana Weekley]1. Debating the College Woman: The Ladies’ Home Journal and Middle-Class White Womanhood, 1890-1920[Michele Curran Cornell]2. What’s Your Face Value?: The Businessman in 1930s Shaving Ads[Danielle Wetmore]3. Respectable Activists: Media Images of Women in the NAACP During the Early Civil Rights Era[Caroline Emmons]4. When AIDS Arrived: HIV/AIDS Coverage in Essence and Cosmopolitan[Ayana Weekley]Section II: Between Production and ReceptionIntroduction to Section II[Victoria Pass]5. Soul Sister Journey: Essence Magazine and Travel Columns During the "Me" Decade[Siobhon Carter-David]6. The Woman’s Era: Constructing Black Women’s Political Identity in the Late 19th Century[Utaukwa Allen]7. Beneath the Surface and Between the Lines: Lesbian Form in Postwar Seventeen[Rebecca Burditt]8. Blackface en Vogue: Racialized Representations in the Fashion Magazine[Julia Brilling]9. Encountering Africa in Vogue: Irving Penn’s African Essays[Victoria Pass]Section III: From Creation to Cultural AnalysisIntroduction to Section III[Noliwe Rooks]10. "White Trash" Celebrity: Shame and Display[Hannah Yelin]11. An Interview with Kimberly N. Foster, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, For Harriet[Noliwe Rooks and Ashley Black]12. #TeamLightSkin v. #TeamDarkSkin: Colorism on Twitter [Sherri Williams]13. Interview with Tamura Lomax, Co-Founder and Editor, The Feminist Wire[Noliwe Rooks and Ashley Black]Section IV: Resources for Scholars14. Women in Print Magazines and New Media: A Bibliography

"The essays in Women’s Magazines in Print and New Media represent an exciting collection that offers historical context and modern perspectives of magazines, from print publications to online periodicals and social media. An interdisciplinary effort, the book represents the work of scholars from diverse fields—including film and visual studies, journalism, critical race studies, history, and gender studies."Paola Banchero, University of Alaska Anchorage, Journal of Magazine Media