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The body of the queen : gender and rule in the courtly world, 1500-2000
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- Creator
- edited by Regina Schulte ; with the assistance of Pernille Arenfeldt, Martin Kohlrausch and Xenia von Tippelskirch
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- English language edition
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2006
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- 1 online resource (ix, 364 pages) : illustrations
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- ISBNs
- 9781845451219, 9781845451592, 9781782386278, 1782386270, 1845451597, 184545121X
- OCLC
- ocn961878740, ocm62408835
- Based on a conference held in Florence, September 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-358) and index.
- The Body of the Queen; Contents; Foreword; 1. Introduction; Part I. Constructing the Body Politic; 2. How Two Ladies Steal a Crown; 3. Elizabeth When a Princess; 4. Elizabeth through the Looking Glass; 5. Royal Flesh, Gender and the Construction of Monarchy; Part II. Transgressing the Body Natural; 6. What the King Saw in the Belly of the Beast or How the Lion Got in the Queen; 7. Posterity and the Body of the Princess in German Court Funeral Books; 8. 'Madame, Ma Chère Fille'- 'Dearest Child'; Part III. Queens of Modernity; 9. Queen Margherita (1851-1926)
- 10. The Double Skin Imperial Fashion in the Nineteenth Century11. Theatrical Monarchy; 12. The Unmanly Emperor; Part IV. Visual Metamorphoses; 13. The 'Berlin' Nefertiti Bust; 14. Imagined Queens between Heaven and Hell; 15. Queer Queen; Selected Bibliography; Index