Introduction: Gender and celebrity studies in a post-#MeToo world. Part 1: Historicising Celebrity 1. Unseemly affects: gender, celebrity, and the policing of fame hunger; 2. Queens of song: opera divas and women's celebrity in Australia; 3. Posthumous celebrity feminism: collective memory, "legacy", and the obituaries of Betty Friedan and Helen Gurley Brown; 4. Queer genius: Alison Bechdel's long-term celebrity; 5. Before "the transgender tipping point": Miriam Rivera, Nadia Almada, reality TV, and the beginnings of celebrified transnormativity. Part 2: Manufacturing Celebrity 6. "Reality reckoning"?: feminised cultural labour and the 'grey zones' of reality television work; 7. On (not) becoming the "fairy goddess": gendered cruel optimism and the affective archive of Chinese (micro)celebrity Li Ziqi; 8. Symbolic interest, and the construction and gatekeeping of celebrity narratives on the awards circuit; 9. Marilyn Monroe(TM): authorisation and the problematic politics of star narrative, sex aids, biopics, and borrowed dresses; 10. A celebrity's resistance against the "civil" social imaginary: the 2021 Pori Moni saga and competing gendered media discourses in Bangladesh; 11. Anyone can be Filmmaker Barbie, but especially Margot Robbie: a constellation of women producer/director stars and collective celebrity field migration in post-#MeToo Hollywood. Part 3: Representing Celebrity 12. (Re)framing Britney Spears: the celebrity bimbo in the #MeToo era; 13. The coming-of-age of Amandla Stenberg: navigating bi-racial girl child stardom, Hollywood, and US society; 14. Rendering the Indigenous body legible: Temuera Morrison, celebrity, and M¿ori masculinities; 15. We need to talk about Kevin: coming out as reputation management in the era of #MeToo; 16. From mother to monarch: RuPaul, US universalism, and the rise of a global drag empire. Part 4: Embodying Celebrity 17. "Gray Pride": feminism, age, embodiment, and the semiotic circuits of celebrity; 18. The child actress in old age: the enduring intertextual influence of The Bad Seed on child star Patty McCormack's silvering celebrity; 19. Celebrity and fatness: crafting an authentic persona between idolisation and marginalisation; 20. Jamie Dornan: negotiating masculine beauty, actorly craft, and regional authenticity; 21. China's "traffic idol" celebrities and mediated gender online: embodying gender norms while traversing platform fragmentation. Part 5: Politicising Celebrity 22. Epistemology of a glass closet: Anson Lo's queer stardom and the politics of ambiguity in the post-ELAB Hong Kong; 23. "Hollywood's Mr Politics": George Clooney, film stardom, and liberal masculinity in post-9/11 USA; 24. Emerging celebrity feminisms in Spain: the case of Leticia Dolera; 25. The intellectual celebrity of Jordan Peterson: performing authority, emotions, and masculinity; 26. Digital celebrity feminist activism in Pakistan: analysing Qandeel Baloch and Meesha Shafi. Part 6: Dis/Empowering Celebrity 27. Yass, camp is political! Randy Rainbow's queer microcelebrity and "sass-veillance"; 28. "A real sharp learning curve": experiences of going viral and becoming an accidental celebrity feminist; 29. Nymphia Wind, imperial drag, and queer Sinophone celebrity crossovers; 30. "I'm so gay": Kristen Stewart's adapted tomboyism and feminist reclaiming of visibility; 31. Michelle Yeoh and the ageing discourse of Asian women celebrities; 32. Gender and the cultural politics of the celebrity selfie. Part 7: Researching Celebrity 33. Anna Ford, "Women in Media", and celebrity/feminism in UK second-wave feminism; 34. "She was never pretty anyway": women celebrities and visibilities of ageing; 35. "Cry only if you're famous": celebrity vulnerability and "ordinary" producers on Instagram; 36. Interviewing queer television celebrities: methodological and practical reflections; 37. #EnginAkyürek: a Turkish actor's global celebrity and women's fan labour.
