Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Diva complex / Michael Montlack
  • Sappho: love, I implore you in polyester lapels / Michael Broder
  • Queen Elizabeth I: heart of a king / Patrick Letellier
  • Virginia Woolf: this perpetual revision of thought / Brian Teare
  • Margaret Dumont: duchess of dignity / Christopher Murray
  • Bessie Smith: empty bed blues / Sam J. Miller
  • Claude Cahun: masks, makeup, meaning / Peter Dubé
  • Gracie Allen: comic muse / Lloyd Schwartz
  • Lotte Lenya: divine Weltschmerz / David Bergman
  • Gloria Swanson: Sunset Boulevard / Edward Field
  • Marlene Dietrich: falling in love again / Walter Holland
  • Joan Crawford versus Bette Davis: "But ya AHHH, Blanche!" / David Trinidad
  • Lucille Ball: flaming redhead / Lawrence Applebaum
  • Mahalia Jackson: divine one / Forrest Hamer
  • Julia Child: life's ingredients / Bill Fogle
  • Billie Holiday: lady day / Alfred Corn
  • Edith Piaf: a share of pain / Gregory Woods
  • Evita Perón: Santa with a soundtrack / Guillermo Castro
  • Grace Paley: O stone! O steel! / Mark Doty
  • Ava Gardner: Small-town girl / C. Cleo Creech
  • Aurora de Albornoz: tía divina / Scott Hightower
  • Joan Sutherland: Dame Joan and I / Gary Ljungquist
  • Eartha Kitt: purrrfectly detached / D.A. Powell
  • Betty Berzon: Dinners with the diminutive diva / Jim van Buskirk
  • Jeanne Moreau: living dangerously with Jeanne / Collin Kelley
  • Jennifer Paterson ["Two fat ladies"]: cocktails with Jennifer / Jack Lynch
  • Audrey Hepburn: adoration and the icon / Joseph Campana
  • Ms. Kiki Durane: her sound and fury / Christopher Schmidt
  • Elizabeth Taylor: the über-diva / Scott F. Stoddart
  • Anna Moffo: her funeral / Wayne Koestenbaum
  • Nina Simone: I got it bad for bangles and diamonds / Regie Cabico
  • Julie Andrews: my first Maria / Mark Wunderlich
  • Tina Turner: Tina and I / Jim Elledge
  • Karen Black: diva of the deranged / Michael Schiavi.
  • Raquel Welch: as my mother / Ron Palmer
  • Julie Christie: the Cocteau girl / Cyrus Cassells
  • Helen Reddy: before anarchy / Richard Tayson
  • Wonder Woman: exploring the Amazon / Jeff Oaks
  • Diana Ross: how to reign supreme / Jericho Brown
  • Rocío Dúrcal: the day she died / Rigoberto González
  • Bette Midler: first loves / Steven Cordova
  • Jessye Norman: Al ob Ich säuseln hörte / Dante Micheaux
  • Liza Minnelli: everybody loves a winner / Jason Schneiderman
  • Cher: History (1987-2000) / Aaron Smith
  • Laura Nyro: all she asked of living / Michael Klein
  • Stevie Nicks: "and wouldn't you love to love her?" / Michael Montlack
  • Jessica Lange: isn't it a laugh? / Allen Smith
  • Patti LuPone: Patti's turn, in the key of diva / Jonathan Howle
  • Wendy Waldman: seeds and orphans / Paul Lisicky
  • Cyndi Lauper: the sadness in her rasp / Steven Riel
  • Rickie Lee Jones: the duchess of coolsville / Timothy Liu
  • Annie Lennex: desire, despair, desire / R.J. Gibson
  • Siouxsie Sioux: black eyeliner and dark dreams / Benjamin Harper
  • Auntie Mame: "I'm going to open doors for you, doors you never even dreamed existed" / Lewis Desimone
  • Kate Bush: the invisible diva / Reginald Shepherd
  • Jamie Lee Curtis: when the artist met his muse / Vince A. Liaguno
  • Sade: The other material girl / Christopher Lee Nutter
  • Taylor Dayne: "Tell it to my heart" / Peter Covino
  • Endora ["Bewitched"]: afternoons as Endora / Richard Blanco
  • Björk: with regards to Ms. Guðmundsdótter / John Dimes
  • Kristin Hersh: "Is sticky ever blue?" / Mark Bibbins
  • Céline Dion: cirque du Céline / Jim Nason
  • Parker Posey: a pocket full of Posey / Michael J. Andrews
  • Margaret Cho: how to break every oriental stereotype in the book / Kenji Oshima
  • Mary J. Blige: I take shallowness seriously / Jeffery Conway
  • Princess Leia: Leia's kiss / Christopher Hennessy.