Special consideration in this volume is given to gender issues arising during periods when upheaval challenged colonial regimes, which often resulted in decolonization and independence. Chapters also reveal how former colonies transitioned into ‘nations,’ along with transnational dynamics that took place among modern states. A common thread woven through each article is the matter of precisely who it was that deserved to be treated and recognized as fully human in an era of imperial exchanges and ongoing capitalist globalization. Authors describe hemes as labour, commodities, fashion, mobility, and activism while exploring the dynamics of empire in destinations ranging from Africa and the Americas to Europe and Asia. .Originally published as Gender & History Volume 26 Issue 3
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.