Diana and beyond: white femininity, national identity and contemporary media culture by Raka Shome, Urbana, Chicago and Springfield, University of Illinois Press, 2014, 256 pp., £24.99 (paperback), IBSN: 978-0-252-08030-2

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Karen Wilkes

Karen Wilkes is Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University. Her interdisciplinary research on visual texts explores the formation and representation of gender, class, sexuality, and race in historical and contemporary visual culture and her book Whiteness, Weddings and Tourism in the Caribbean: Paradise for Sale, was published in September 2016. She has also published the following work; book chapters entitled, From the Landscape to the White Female Body in the edited collection Mediating the Tourist Experience edited by Jo-Anne Lester and Caroline Scarles, and Whiteness and Postcolonial Luxury in Unsettling Whiteness edited by Lucy Michael and Samantha Schultz. Her journal article entitled Colluding with Neoliberalism: post-feminist subjectivities, whiteness and expressions of entitlement, was published in Feminist Review July 2015.