E X C E S S

• Introduction
  Jana Evans Braziel and Kathleen LeBesco, editors
• Bessie Smith: Upsetting the American Appetite
  Jennifer Ryan
• Hysterical Freedom: Surrealist Dance and Hélène Vanel's Faulty Functions
  Don LaCoss
• Guest-Starring Excess: Zsa Zsa Gabor and the Domestic Sitcom
  Kirsten Pullen
• "¡La Lupe!": Performing Race, Gender, Nation, and Excess
  Delia Poey
• Media Star and Monster: Spectacle and the "Imeldific"
  Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart
• Queening It: Women's Taste for Jewelry Excesses in Post-War Britain
  Adele Patrick
• Visceral Excess: Cosmimesis in the Work of Orlan
  Emma Govan
• Dréd's Drag Kinging of Race, Sex, and Queering the American Racial machine-désirante
  Jana Evans Braziel
• Infertile Me: The Public Performance of Fertility Treatments in Internet Weblogs
  Erin Striff
• Excessive Performances of the Same: Beauty as the Beast of Reality TV
  Natalie Wilson
• Situating Fat Suits: Blackface, Drag, and the Politics of Performance
  Kathleen LeBesco
• The Seen, the Scene and the Obscene: Commodity Fetishism and Corporeal Ghosting
  Donia Mounsef