The Madonna connection: representational politics, subcultural identities, and cultural theory

Introduction - connections/intersections, Cathy Schwichtenberg. Part 1 Out of bounds - reading race and Madonna's audiences: a sacred monster in her prime - audience construction of Madonna as low-other, Laurie Schulze et al Madonna T/races - music videos through the prism of colour, Thomas K. Nakayama and Lisa N. Penaloza images of race and religion in Madonna's video Like a Prayer - prayer and praise, Ronald B. Scott. Part 2 The sapphic insurgent - Madonna and gay culture: embodying subaltern memory - kinesthesia and the problematics of race and gender, Cindy Patton justify our love - Madonna and the politics of queer sex, Lisa Henderson Madonna's postmodern feminism - bringing the margins back to the centre, C. Schwichtenberg. Part 3 Gender trouble - Madonna poses the feminist question: Madonna politics - perversion, repression or subversion? or masks and/as mastery/master-y, E. Ann Kaplan feminist politics and postmodern seductions - Madonna and the struggle for political articulation, Roseann M. Mandzuik seduction, control and the search for authenticity - Madonna's truth or dare, E. Deidre Pribram don't go for second sex, baby!, Melanie Morton. Part 4 The political economy of postmodernism - Madonna as star-commodity: metatextual girl - patriarchy-postmodernism-power-money-Madonna, David Tezlaff Material Girl - the effacements of postmodern culture, Susan Bordo the distance between me and you - Madonna and celestial navigation or (You Can be My LUCKY STAR), Greg Seigworth.