| From the Royal to the Republican Body |
| Introduction |
 | 1 The Body Politics of French Absolutism |
 | 2 Lim(b)inal Images "Betwixt and Between" Louis XIV's Martial and Marital Bodies |
| • | 1658: Lim(b)inal Images |
| • | 1659: Framing the Body's Politics |
| 3 The King Cross-Dressed Power and Force in Royal Ballets |
| 4 Unruly Passions and Courtly Dances Technologies of the Body in Baroque Music |
| 5 Body of Law The Sun King and the Code Noir |
| 6 Louis le Bien-Aimé and the Rhetoric of the Royal Body |
| 7 Dancing the Body Politic Manner and Mimesis in Eighteenth-Century Ballet |
| 8 The Theater of Punishment Melodrama and Judicial Reform in Prerevolutionary France |
| 9 Sex, Savagery, and Slavery in the Shaping of the French Body Politic |
| 10 Freedom of Dress in Revolutionary France |
| Contributors |
| Index |