ABSTRACT
The essays in this section examine narrative constructions of race and gender and interrogate the ways that the politics of gender, race, class, and the defining of normative and ideal citizen become part of the discursive work of periodicals. The topics of the essays include: an examination of the changing constructions of college women in the Ladies’ Home Journal ; an analysis of Depression-era men’s shaving advertisements in the Saturday Evening Post ; an analysis of representations of Ruby Hurley, a NAACP civil rights worker, across multiple publications; and a comparative analysis of HIV/AIDS discourses in Essence and Cosmopolitan .
