Risky business : exploring women's autobiography and performance / M. Heather Carver -- Intimate partners : a critical autobiography of performing Anais̈ / Elyse Lamm Pineau -- Gertrude Stein never enough / Lynn C. Miller -- Mule of the world : the embodiment of Mary Church Terrell / Eileen C. Cherry -- Desire in evidence / Stacy Wolf -- Too wild for her own good : searching for the real Calamity Jane / M. Heather Carver -- Georgia O'Keeffe x Catherine Rogers / Catherine Rogers -- The last reading of Charlotte Cushman / Carolyn Gage -- Performing historical figures : the metadramatics of women's autobiographical performance / Carol Hanbery MacKay -- Illustrated woman : autoperformance in "Skins : a daughter's (re)construction of cancer" and "Tattoo stories : a postscript to Skins" / Tami Spry -- On being an exemplary lesbian : my life as a role model / Jacqueline Taylor -- A clean breast of it / Linda Park-Fuller -- sista docta / Joni L. Jones -- The performance of drowning / Terry Galloway -- Death in the art and life of Linda M. Montano / Linda M. Montano -- Shaping the world with our hands / Laila Farah -- "Orchids in the Arctic" : women's autobiographical performances as mentoring / Elizabeth Bell.