| Table of Contents |
| | Acknowledgements | |
| | Posology (or, How to Read a Reader) | |
| | Introduction: Queering the Camp | 1 |
| Sect. I | Tasting it | |
| | 1 | From The World in the Evening / Christopher Isherwood | 49 |
| | 2 | 'Notes on "Camp"' / Susan Sontag | 53 |
| | 3 | 'Campe-toi!: On the Origins and Definitions of Camp' / Mark Booth | 66 |
| | 4 | From Camp: The Lie That Tells The Truth / Philip Core | 80 |
| Sect. II | Flaunting the Closet | |
| | 5 | 'Role Models' / Esther Newton | 96 |
| | 6 | 'It's Being So Camp as Keeps Us Going' / Richard Dyer | 110 |
| | 7 | 'The Cinema of Camp (aka Camp and the Gay Sensibility)' / Jack Babuscio | 117 |
| | 8 | 'For Interpretation: Notes against Camp' / Andrew Britton | 136 |
| | 9 | 'Sex and Address in Dynasty' / Mark Finch | 143 |
| | 10 | 'Homosexual Signs (In Memory of Roland Barthes)' / Harold Beaver | 160 |
| | 11 | 'Forgery' / Neil Bartlett | 179 |
| | 12 | 'Toward a Butch-Femme Aesthetic' / Sue-Ellen Case | 185 |
| Sect. III | Gender, and Other Spectacles | |
| | 13 | From 'Wilde, Nietzsche, and the Sentimental Relations of the Male Body' / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick | 207 |
| | 14 | 'Post/modern: On the Gay Sensibility, or the Pervert's Revenge on Authenticity' / Jonathan Dollimore | 221 |
| | 15 | 'Camp among the Swastikas: Isherwood, Sally Bowles, and "Good Heter Stuff"' / Linda Mizejewski | 237 |
| | 16 | 'Genderfuck: The Law of the Dildo' / June L. Reich | 254 |
| | 17 | 'What Makes the Feminist Camp?' / Pamela Robertson | 266 |
| | 18 | '"Who's That Girl?" Annie Lennox, Woolf's Orlando, and Female Camp Androgyny' / George Piggford | 283 |
| Sect. IV | Pop Camp, Surplus Counter-Value, or the Camp of Cultural Economy | |
| | 19 | 'Uses of Camp' / Andrew Ross | 308 |
| | 20 | 'The Caped Crusader of Camp: Pop, Camp, and the Batman Television Series' / Sasha Torres | 330 |
| | 21 | 'Warhol's Camp' / Matthew Tinkcom | 344 |
| Sect. V | The Queer Issue | |
| | 22 | 'From Interiority to Gender Performatives' / Judith Butler | 361 |
| | 23 | 'Boys Will Be Girls: Drag and Transvestic Fetishism' / Carole-Anne Tyler | 369 |
| | 24 | 'Mae West's Maids: Race, "Authenticity", and the Discourse of Camp' / Pamela Robertson | 393 |
| | 25 | 'Camping in the Art Closet: The Politics of Camp and Nation in German Film' / Johannes von Moltke | 409 |
| | 26 | 'The Deaths of Camp' / Caryl Flinn | 433 |
| | Digging the Scene: A bibliography of secondary materials, 1869-1997 | 458 |
| | Index of names | 513 |
