INTRODUCTION - CIRCLING MARILYN . . 7 

CHAPTER I - TEXT 
Everybody's Marilyn . . 13 
DiMaggio and Marilyn . . 26 
Miller and Marilyn . . 40 

CHAPTER II - BODY 
Marilyn's Bodies . . 53 
The Disciplined Body . . 57 
The Mirroring Body . . 63 
The Communicative Body . . 66 
The Fin de Siecle Body . . 70 

CHAPTER III - MARILYN PERFORMING 
Oates's Actress . . 75 
Ethnic Marilyn . . 85 
Natural Marilyn . . 96 

CHAPTER IV - PERFORMING MARILYN 
Be Marilyn! . . 111
Madonna's Marilyn . . 123
Gay Marilyn . . 129

POSTSCRIPT . . 141
NOTES . . 147
WORKS CITED . . 167