Introduction : Oprah Winfrey as subject and spectacle / Jennifer Harris and Elwood Watson
Oprah Winfrey and race. The specter of Oprah Winfrey : critical black female spectatorship / Tarshia L. Stanley
My mom and Oprah Winfrey : her appeal to white women / Linda Kay
The "Oprahization" of America : The man show and the redefinition of black femininity / Valerie Palmer-Mehta
Oprah Winfrey on the stage. Oprah Winfrey and women's autobiography : a televisual performance of the therapeutic self / Eva Illouz and Nicholas John
From fasting toward self-acceptance : Oprah Winfrey and weight loss in American culture / Ella Howard
Spiritual talk : The Oprah Winfrey Show and the popularization of the new age / Maria McGrath
Oprah Winfrey and spirituality / Denise Martin
Phenomenon on trial : reading rhetoric at Texas beef v. Oprah Winfrey / Jennifer Richardson
Oprah Winfrey on the page. Oprah's book club and the American dream / Malin Pereira
Some lessons before dying : gender, morality, and the missing critical discourse in Oprah's book club / Roberta F. Hammett and Audrey Dentith
Making corrections to Oprah's Book club : reclaiming literary power for gendered literacy management / Sarah Robbins
Knowing for sure : epistemologies of the autonomous self in O, the Oprah magazine / Marjorie Jolles
Oprah Winfrey's branding of personal empowerment / Damiana Gibbons
"What is Africa to me?" : The Oprah Winfrey leadership academy / Jennifer Harris.
The Oprah phenomenon. ISBN 9780813192369. Published by University Press of Kentucky in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.