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Introduction -- Queen Victoria and political self-fashioning : clothing careers / Birgit Neumann-- From princess bride to fashion queen : wedding gowns as a strategy and spatial and physical staging act / Lioba Keller-Drescher -- Jacqueline Kennedy : White House queen and enduring style icon / Stella Bruzzi -- Fashionable gender trouble in politics / -- The queen stripped bare : Louise of Prussia, nudity, fashion, andpolitical iconography -- Productive illegibility : gender, monarchy and self-creation in the histories, images and fictions of Queen Christina Vasa of Sweden -- Sisi & sisters : on stars & style Barbara Vinken fashion victim Marie Antoinette (1755 Vienna, 1793 Paris) / Michaela Lindinger -- Let them go shopping : Marie Antoinette moves from page to screen -- A column with a slit : the diva and her dress / Annette Geiger -- Irene Castle : Ragtime dance and fashion icon / Patricia A. Cunningham -- "Hiding in plain sight" : fashion and mimicry in Cindy Sherman's (non-self-) portraits / Hanne Loreck -- Fashion queen barbie / Gertrud Lehnert -- Helms krystle and Alexis : the princess and the queen bitch in dynasty / Laura Mclaws -- Like a queen : Madonna & the stage as court / Adam Louis Troldahl -- Notes on contributors.

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