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Diana, A Cultural History: Gender, Race, Nation and the People's Princess - This book intervenes in debates over the significance of Diana, Princess of Wales, by offering a critical account of her status as a media icon from 1981 to the present. It outlines the historical development of representations of Diana, analyzing the ways in which she has been understood via discourses of gender, sexuality, race, economic class, the royal, national identity, and the human. The book goes on to assess the issues at stake in debates over the "meaning" of Diana, such as the gender politics of cultural icon-making and deconstruction, and conflicting notions of cultural value.


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Book Details

⚡️Book Title : Diana, A Cultural History: Gender, Race, Nation and the People's Princess
⚡Book Author : Jude Davies
⚡Page : 260 pages
⚡Published August 18th 2001 by Palgrave Macmillan (first published June 1st 2001)

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

This book intervenes in debates over the significance of Diana, Princess of Wales, by offering a critical account of her status as a media icon from 1981 to the present. It outlines the historical development of representations of Diana, analyzing the ways in which she has been understood via discourses of gender, sexuality, race, economic class, the royal, national identity, and the human. The book goes on to assess the issues at stake in debates over the "meaning" of Diana, such as the gender politics of cultural icon-making and deconstruction, and conflicting notions of cultural value.