Marie Antoinette seems to be everywhere these days, but why? In this episode, we unravel the legacy of the French queen through the lens of the iconic Sofia Coppola movie. Listen to learn more about women's role in the French Revolution, fashion scandals, and what Marie Antoinette can teach us about history.

References:

• Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser
• "Just Another 'Citoyenne?' Marie-Antoinette on Trial, 1790-1793" by Elizabeth Colwill
• Trading Places – Colonization and Slavery in 18th-Century French Culture by Madeleine Dobie
• "Pass as a Woman, Act Like a Man: Marie-Antoinette as Tribade in the Pornography of the French Revolution" by Elizabeth Colwill
• Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1755-1842
• "'Let Them Eat Cake': The Mythical Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution" by Nancy Ν. Barker
• "Women’s Roles, Rights and Representations in France, 1758–1848" by Siobhán McIlvanney
• "Zamore 'the African' and the Haunting of France's Collective Consciousness" by Lisa Schreier
• "Recent Historiography on the French Revolution and Gender" by Suzanne Desan
• "'Marie Antoinette': Fashion, Third-Wave Feminism, and Chick Culture" by Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young
• "Representing Maternal and Domestic Virtues: The Governess of the Children of France in the Bourbon Dynasty, 1704-1789" by Alisha Ma (unpublished dissertation)
• "Terrorizing Marie Antoinette" by Pierre Saint-Amand and Jennifer Curtiss Gage
• "Black Jacobins in Contemporary France: On Identities on Politics, Decolonial Critique, andthe Other Blackness" by Vanessa Eileen Thompson
• "Marie Antoinette and the Ghosts of the French Revolution" by Alexander Zevin