Diana, A Cultural History: Gender, Race, Nation and the People's Princess

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Introduction: Why a Cultural History?......Page 10
The princess and the people......Page 29
Stardom, self-realization and spectacles of presence......Page 31
The exemplary feminine......Page 41
A brief history of Diana as a sign (take one)......Page 45
The royal family, Britishness and myth......Page 51
Diana and myth criticism......Page 53
A brief history of Diana as a sign (take two)......Page 57
Diana textualized, but not a text......Page 59
The people\'s princess?......Page 64
Female consumption and the gendering of ordinariness......Page 66
Royal weddings and the transcendence of public/private......Page 78
Diana and royal femininity......Page 84
Narratives and mourning practices......Page 96
The Diana myth as narrative of female transformation......Page 98
Appropriating feminism in Diana: Her True Story......Page 100
Romance, realism and myth in Diana biography, 1991–2......Page 109
Femininity and empowerment in Diana: Her True Story......Page 115
Panorama and other elaborations of the Morton myth......Page 123
Realist representations of Diana empowered, 1992–6......Page 127
Diana vs. Charles......Page 130
Contesting the Morton myth......Page 136
Iconicity......Page 144
Expressivity......Page 147
Her life in images......Page 152
Feminist iconicity?......Page 156
Kindergarten Madonna......Page 162
\'Something wrong\': The limits of the image......Page 167
Television and land-mines......Page 170
Dress Sale......Page 177
5 The Mourning for Diana and the Question of National Transformation......Page 190
Diana as either/or: unitary representations of the Diana events......Page 191
Diana as \'both…and\': multivalent representations of the Diana events......Page 194
Race, ethnicity and \'national desire\'......Page 197
Royal visits and the geography of difference......Page 199
The story of Di and Dodi as multi-ethnic romance......Page 205
Diana\'s funeral and the legitimation of multi-ethnic Britain......Page 209
Epilogue......Page 214
Notes......Page 219
Bibliography......Page 242
Index......Page 254