Introduction, Mary Rhiel, David Suchoff
Part I MASS MEDIA,Introduclion, K. Anthony Appiah
Chapter 1 BISEXUALITY AND CELEBRITY, Marjorie Garber
Chapter 2 PERSONAL STORIES AND NATIONAL MEANINGS, Marita Sturken
Chapter 3 INVENTING AND INTERPRETING MALCOLM X, Michael Eric Dyson
Part II PRIVATE LIVES, PUBLIC FIGURES
Chapter 03 Introduction, William S. McFeely
Chapter 4 READING THE SILENCES IN A GAY LIFE, John D'Emilio
Chapter 5 OUTING HISTORY, Blanche Wiesen Cook
Chapter 6 MICHAEL HARRINGTON, Maurice Isserman
Part III CHANGING THE SUBJECT
Chapter 04 Introduction, Betty Sasaki
Chapter 7 TWO PAINTINGS BY WILLIAM H. JOHNSON, Richard J. Powell
Chapter 8 RECONSTRUCTING ENTERPRISE, Jeffrey Louis Decker
Chapter 9 FRIDA KAHLO, Hayden Herrera
Part IV WHOSE LIFE IS IT, ANYWAY?
Chapter 05 Introduction, Barbara Johnson
Chapter 10 TELLING SECRETS, Diane Wood Middlebrook
Chapter 11 CONFESSIONS OF A BURNED-OUTlncidents IN THE LIFE OF HARRIET JACOBS, Jean Fagan Yellin
Chapter 13 TAKING A LIFE, Doris Sommer
Part V POSTMODERNISM AND THE POSSIBILITY OFIntroduction, Marjorie Garber
Chapter 14 TELLING THE TELLER, Sherley Anne Williams
Chapter 15 CATASTROPHIC ENCOIINTERS, Marilyn L. Brownstein
Chapter 16 YOUR NEAREST EXTT MAY BE BEHIND YOU, Clark Blaise