"Is it True What They Say about Models?": Modelling African American Womanhood On the Eve of the Civil Rights Era

Authors

  • Laila Haidarali York University

Keywords:

Models, Beauty culture, Body image, Modeling agencies, Fashion Photography, Women in advertising, Mass media

Abstract

This paper explores the work of models, modelling agencies, and popular magazines in forging a new iconography of African American womanhood. These raced and gendered images and ideas engaged heterosexual appeal, feminine deportment, and middle-class consumerist status as a strategy for race advancement on the eve of the civil rights era.

Author Biography

  • Laila Haidarali, York University
    Laila Haidarali, York University, has published in the Journal of Women's History and Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U. S. Women's History, 4th edition.

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Published

2007-10-01

Issue

Vol. 32 No. 1 (2007): Volume 32, Number 1 (2007)

Section

Labouring Feminism Thematic Cluster

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