Diana and beyond : white femininity, national identity, and contemporary media culture /

The death of Princess Diana unleashed an international outpouring of grief, love, and press attention virtually unprecedented in history. Yet the exhaustive effort to link an upper class white British woman with "the people" raises questions. What narrative of white femininity transformed...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shome, Raka, 1966- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014]
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=760254
Table of Contents:
  • White femininity in the nation, the nation in white femininity
  • Racialized maternalisms: white motherhood and national modernity
  • Fashioning the nation: the citizenly body, multiculturalism, and transnational designs
  • "Global motherhood": the transnational intimacies of white femininity
  • White femininity and transnational masculinit(ies): desire and the "Muslim man"
  • Cosmopolitan healing: the spiritual fix of white femininity.