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.