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The Body of the Queen

Gender and Rule in the Courtly World, 1500-2000
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
Englisch
Berghahn Bookserschienen am01.04.2006
How many "bodies" does a queen have? What is the significance of multiple "bodies"? How has the gendered body been constructed and perceived within the context of the European courts during the course of the past five centuries? This book addresses some of these questions.mehr
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Produkt

KlappentextHow many "bodies" does a queen have? What is the significance of multiple "bodies"? How has the gendered body been constructed and perceived within the context of the European courts during the course of the past five centuries? This book addresses some of these questions.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-84545-159-2
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2006
Erscheinungsdatum01.04.2006
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 21 mm
Gewicht547 g
Artikel-Nr.13018272
Rubriken
GenreGeschichte/Politik

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of IllustrationsForewordList of ContributorsChapter 1. Introduction: Conceptual Approaches to the Queen´s BodyRegina SchultePART I: CONSTRUCTING THE BODY POLITICChapter 2. How Two Ladies Steal a Crown: The Memoirs of Helene Kottannerin (1439-40) at the Court of Queen Elisabeth of Hungary (1409-42)Horst WenzelChapter 3. Elizabeth When a Princess: Early Self-representations in a Portrait and a LetterSusan FryeChapter 4. Elizabeth through the Looking Glass: Picturing the Queen´s Two BodiesLouis MontroseChapter 5. Royal Flesh, Gender and the Construction of MonarchyRachel WeilPART II: TRANSGRESSING THE BODY NATURALChapter 6. What the King Saw in the Belly of the Beast or How the Lion Got in the Queen: Allegories of Royal Procreation in the 1622 Royal Entry into LyonAbby E. ZangerChapter 7. Posterity and the Body of the Princess in German Court Funeral BooksJill BeplerChapter 8. Madame, Ma Chère Fille´ - Dearest Child´: Letters from Imperial Mothers to Royal DaughtersRegina SchultePART III: QUEENS OF MODERNITYChapter 9. Queen Margherita (1851-1926): 'The Only Man in the House of Savoy'Catherine BriceChapter 10. The Double Skin: Imperial Fashion in the Nineteenth CenturyJuliane VogelChapter 11. Theatrical Monarchy: The Making of Victoria, the Modern Family QueenBernd WeisbrodChapter 12. The Unmanly Emperor: Wilhelm II and the Fragility of the Royal IndividualMartin KohlrauschPART IV: VISUAL METAMORPHOSESChapter 13. The Berlin´ Nefertiti Bust: Imperial Fantasies in Twentieth-Century German Archaeological DiscourseClaudia BregerChapter 14. Imagined Queens between Heaven and Hell: Representations of Grace Kelly and Romy SchneiderAlexis SchwarzenbachChapter 15. Queer Queen: Elizabeth I in Sally Potter´s Film OrlandoKatharina SykoraBibliographyIndexmehr
Kritik
This book is a welcome - contribution to the growing literature on queens. That it scrutinizes so many queens in so many different contexts will give this collection broad appeal and make it appropriate reading in university courses devoted to gender and power.A" * Franciamehr

Autor

Regina Schulte's main fields of research are social and cultural history from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, especially the history of crime, gender and war. She taught Modern History and Gender History at Technical University Berlin, Bochum, Cornell University, and European University Institute Florence. Currently she holds a Chair of Modern and Contemporary History/Gender History at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.