Dena Goodman is Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. Her publications include The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the FrenchEnlightenment (1994) and Going Public: Women andPublishing in Early Modern France, which she co-edited (1995).

Illustrations. Credits. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Not Another Biography of Marie-Antoinette! A Select Chronology of Marie-Antoinette's Life. Biographical Sketches of Principal Figures in the Life of Marie-Antoinette 1. Hapsburg Letters: The Disciplinary Dynamics of Epistolary Narrative in the Correspondence of Maria Theresa and Marie-Antoinette 2. The Portrait of the Queen 3. The Diamond Necklace Affair Revisited (1785-1786): The Case of the Missing Queen 4. The Heroine of the Crime: Marie-Antoinette in Pamphlets 5. The Many Bodies of Marie-Antoinette: Political Pornography and the Problem of the Feminine in the French Revolution 6. Pass as a Woman, Act Like a Man: Marie-Antoinette as Tribade in the Pornography of the French Revolution 7. Ambiguous Identities: Marie-Antoinette and the House of Lorraine from the Affair of the Minuet to Lambesc's Charge 8. Marie-Antoinette Obsession 9. "We're Just Little People, Louis": Marie-Antoinette on Film 10. Terrorizing Marie-Antoinette Afterword: The (Ab)uses of Marie-Antoinette. Notes on Contributors. Index