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Title The body of the queen : gender and rule in the courtly world, 1500-2000 / edited by Regina Schulte ; with the assistance of Pernille Arenfeldt, Martin Kohlrausch and Xenia von Tippelskirch
Edition English language edition
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 364 pages) : illustrations
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book
Contents 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
Notes Based on a conference held in Florence, September 2001
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-358) and index
Notes Print version
In ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subject Sex role -- History -- Congresses
Queens -- History -- Congresses
Courts and courtiers -- History -- Congresses
Human body -- Social aspects -- Congresses
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Courts and courtiers
Human body -- Social aspects
Queens
Sex role
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Schulte, Regina, 1949- editor.
Arenfeldt, Pernille
Kohlrausch, Martin
Tippelskirch, Xenia von
ISBN 184545121X
9781845451219
9781782386278
1782386270
Other Titles Gender and rule in the courtly world, 1500-2000