Acknowledgements Author Biographies Introduction: Su Holmes, University of East Anglia and Diane Negra, University College Dublin, "In the Limelight and Under the Microscope: Forms and Functions of Female Celebrity" Chapter 1: Catherine Hindson, University of Bristol, "'Mrs. Langtry Seems to be on the Way to a Fortune:' The Jersey Lily and Models of Nineteenth-Century Fame" Chapter 2: Abigail Salerno, Trinity College, "Helen Keller, Hollywood and Political Celebrity" Chapter 3: April Miller, University of Northern Colorado, "Bloody Blondes and Bobbed-Haired Bandits: Executing Justice and Constructing Celebrity Criminals in the 1920s Popular Press" Chapter 4: Ruth Barton, Trinity College, "Rocket Scientist!: The Posthumous Celebrity of Hedy Lamarr" Chapter 5: Anne Morey, Texas A & M University, "Grotesquerie as Marker of Success in Aging Female Stars" Chapter 6: Leslie Abramson, Lake Forest College, "Mia Farrow in the 1960s: Categorically Intangible" Chapter 7: Kim Allen, London Metropolitan University, "The 'Right' Kind of Fame?: Celebrity Culture and the Structuring of Young Women's Fantasies of Success" Chapter 8: Caitlin Lewis, University College Dublin, "'Don't Let Sofia's Littleness and Quietness Confuse You:' Sofia Coppola as Persona, Brand and Text" Chapter 9: Emma Bell, University of Brighton, "The Insanity Plea: Female Celebrities, Reality Media and the Pyschopathology of British Pop-Feminism" Chapter 10: Margaret Schwartz, Fordham University, "The Horror of Something to See: Celebrity 'Vaginas' as Prostheses" Chapter 11: Joselyn Leimbach, Indiana University, "Strengthening as They Undermine: Rachel Maddow and Suze Orman's Homonormative Lesbian Identities" Chapter 12: Alice Leppert and Julie Wilson, University of Minnesota, "Living The Hills Life: Lauren Conrad as Reality Star, Soap Opera Heroine, and Brand"¿ Chapter 13: Candice Haddad, University of Michigan, "Discourses of Censorship, Immigration and Terrorism: Exploring the Politics of Crossing Over through the Transnational Stardom of M.I.A." Chapter 14: Anna Fisher, Brown University, "We Love This Trainwreck!: Sacrificing Britney to Save America" Index.