Creating the modern man: American magazines and consumer culture, 1900-1950

1. Old-fashioned manhood in a newfangled medium.

2. African American masculinity and the great debate: rescuing black masculinity from the success ethic.

3. "Horatio Alger doesn't work here any more": the emergence of modern masculinity, 1915-1935.

4. From the ground up: reclaiming the basis for masculinity in African American magazines, 1910-1949.

5. A pleasing personality wins the day: the cultural hegemony of modern masculinity.