Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Sappho (630 BC) -- Queen Elizabeth I (1533) -- Virginia Woolf (1882) -- Margaret Dumont (1882) -- Bessie Smith (1892) -- Claude Cahun (1894) -- Gracie Allen (1895) -- Lotte Lenya (1898) -- Gloria Swanson (1899) -- Marlene Dietrich (1901) -- Joan Crawford (1905) versus Bette Davis (1908) -- Lucille Ball (1911) -- Mahalia Jackson (1911) -- Julia Child (1912) -- Billie Holiday (1915) -- Edith Piaf (1915) -- Evita Perón (1919) -- Grace Paley (1922) -- Ava Gardner (1922) -- Aurora de Albornoz (1926) -- Joan Sutherland (1926) -- Eartha Kitt (1927) -- Betty Berzon (1928) -- Jeanne Moreau (1928) -- Jennifer Paterson ["Two Fat Ladies"] (1928) -- Audrey Hepburn (1929) -- Ms. Kiki Durane (Depression Era) -- Elizabeth Taylor (1932) -- Anna Moffo (1932) -- Nina Simone (1933) -- Julie Andrews (1935) -- Tina Turner (1939) -- Karen Black (1939) -- Raquel Welch (1940) -- Julie Christie (1941) -- Helen Reddy (1941) -- Wonder Woman (1941) -- Diana Ross (1944) -- Rocío Dúrcal (1944) -- Bette Midler (1945) -- Jessye Norman (1945) -- Liza Minnelli (1946) -- Cher (1946) -- Laura Nyro (1947) -- Stevie Nicks (1948) -- Jessica Lange (1949) -- Patti LuPone (1949) -- Wendy Waldman (1950) -- Cyndi Lauper (1953) -- Rickie Lee Jones (1954) -- Annie Lennox (1954) -- Siouxsie Sioux (1957) -- Auntie Mame (1958) -- Kate Bush (1958) -- Jamie Lee Curtis (1958) -- Sade (1959) -- Taylor Dayne (1962) -- Endora ["Bewitched"] (1964) -- Björk (1965) -- Kristin Hersh (1966) -- Céline Dion (1968) -- Parker Posey (1968) -- Margaret Cho (1968) -- Mary J. Blige (1971) -- Princess Leia (1977) -- Contributors.