The Reinvention of the Concept
Buch, Englisch, 396 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm
Reihe: Queenship and Power
ISBN: 978-3-032-37727-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
This book explores queenship in the modern era in ways that highlight the emergence of individual queens as female leaders. The chapters revisit familiar figures like Marie-Antoinette and Queen Victoria alongside lesser-known queens such as Hortense of Holland, Greece’s Queen Amalia, and Empress Shöken. Emphasising female leadership and queenship, it concludes with Benazir Bhutto’s use of tropes of queenship. The volume examines how the queens showcased engaged with opportunities offered in the modern era with more or less success. That success depended on factors including spousal support, the health of the monarchic institution and the ways that these women engaged with and made use of the emerging mass media. Whether as queens regnant, consort or regent, the actions of queens such as Hortense and Isabel II of Spain, who failed to engage positively with the challenges of modernity, are shown to have been less well regarded by both contemporaries and history. Others, including Princess (Marie-) Caroline of Monaco, Romania’s Queen Elisabeth and Queen Aliya of Iraq, left legacies not only upon their own states but also on how queenship was expected to operate in a modern world. Marie-Antoinette, Queen Augusta and Crown Princess Victoria of Prussia and Queen Emma of the Netherlands are revealed to have been sophisticated politicians, while the UK’s Queen Victoria and Queen Mary were both active royal diplomats. In her engagement with the imagery associated with her working persona Carmen Sylva, Elisabeth of Romania was an effective mistress of mimesis, as were Empress Shöken and Princess Grace of Monaco. The chapters on Empress Zita and Benazir Bhutto focus on women negotiating styles of female leadership in republican contexts where popular expectations of monarchic conduct still had a significant mass impact. This volume effectively reveals how different queens operated to sustain monarchic institutions by reinventing the concept of what it meant to be a queen in the modern era.
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- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
Matthew Glencross: Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Table of Contents.- Table of Illustrations .- 1.Aidan Jones and Judith Rowbotham: Introduction: Queenship in the Modern World.- 2.Lawrence Larkin: ‘Forsaking the Old Order of Things’: Marie-Antoinette and the Constitutional Monarchy.- 3.Randy Fink: The Political Consequences of Queen Hortense of Holland.- 4.Pandeleimon Hionidis: A German Princess in Athens: Queen Amalia and Statecraft in Modern Greece, 1836-62.- 5.David San Narciso: The Domestic Drama of Isabel II: Gender and Dynastic Rituals in the Spanish Monarchy (de)Legitimization, 1833–1868.- 6.Aidan Jones: ‘Someone he really fancies’: Queenly Power and Dynastic Politics; Female Royal Diplomacy and the 1874 Marriage of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.- 7.Nathan Orgill: Moral Conquests? Queenship in Prussia During the Constitutional Conflict .- 8.Beth Ann Muellner: Working the Gilded Cage: Queen Elisabeth of Romania.- 9.Alison Miller: Imperial Optics and Modern Mimesis: Japan’s Empress Shoken in Nineteenth Century Print Culture.- 10.Monica Soeting: ‘Went for a walk, and took a ride’: Emma, Queen of the Netherlands (1858-1934).- 11.Judith Rowbotham: ‘A career of the greatest usefulness to her country’ – Mary of Teck’s Royal Diplomacy 1893-1918.- 12.Christopher Brennan: Exile Without End: Empress Zita and the Politics of Dynastic Survival.- 13.Elizabeth Bishop: ‘The public received notice for the first time today’: Iraq’s Modern Queen Aliya, An Unlikely Consort.- 14.Bettina de Cosnac: ‘Not Always Noble, but Ahead of Their Time’: Princesses Consort of the House of Monaco.- 15.Shahla Haeri: Benazir Bhutto: A New Style of ‘Queen’: One Without Parallel.- 16.Aidan Jones and Judith Rowbotham: Epilogue.- Index.
