The essays collected in this book provide profound insights into the wide-ranging topic of the fashionable queen: the manifold implications and effects that the combination of body, power and gender can have are examined by using different approaches and a variety of theoretical frameworks. Contents: Monika Seidl / Eva Flicker / Nina Formanek / Eva Schörgenhuber: Introduction: Birgit Neumann: Queen Victoria and political self-fashioning: clothing careers: Lioba Keller-Drescher: From princess bride to fashion queen: wedding gowns as a strategy and spatial and physical staging act: Stella Bruzzi: Jacqueline Kennedy: White House queen and enduring style icon: Eva Flicker: Fashionable gender trouble in politics: Katharina Sykora: The queen stripped bare: Louise of Prussia, nudity, fashion, and political iconography: Griselda Pollock: Productive illegibility: gender, monarchy and self-creation in the histories, images and fictions of queen Christina Vasa of Sweden: Michaela Lindinger: Sisi & sisters: on stars & style: Barbara Vinken: Fashion victim? Marie Antoinette (1755 Vienna, 1793 Paris): Pamela Church-Gibson: let them go shopping: Marie Antoinette moves from page to screen: Annette Geiger: column with a slit: the diva and her dress: Patricia A. Cunningham: Irene Castle: Ragtime dance and fashion icon: Hanne Loreck: “Hiding in Plain Sightâ€: fashion and mimicry in Cindy Sherman's (non-self)portraits: Gertrud Lehnert: Fashion queen Barbie: Laura McLaws Helms: Krystle and Alexis: the princess and the queen bitch in Dynasty: Adam Louis Troldahl: Like a queen: Madonna & the stage as court.
This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black women's places in intellectual history by engaging the work of writers, educators, activists, religious leaders, and social reformers in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean. The result is a volume that addresses topics ranging from religion and slavery to the politicized and gendered reappraisal of the black female body in contemporary culture. Contributors are Mia E. Bay, Judith Byfield, Alexandra Cornelius, Thadious Davis, Corinne T. Field, Arlette Frund, Kaiama L. Glover, Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones, Natasha Lightfoot, Sherie Randolph, Barbara D. Savage, Jon Sensbach, Maboula Soumahoro, and Cheryl Wall.