Table of Contents
Introduction: Connections/Intersections -- Out of Bounds: Reading Race and Madonna's Audiences -- "A Sacred Monster in Her Prime": Audience Construction of Madonna as Low-Other -- Madonna T/Races: Music Videos Through the Prism of Color -- Images of Race & Religion in Madonna's Video Like a Prayer: Prayer & Praise -- The Sapphic Insurgent: Madonna and Gay Culture -- Embodying Subaltern Memory: Kinesthesia & the Problematics of Gender & Race -- Justify Our Love: Madonna & the Politics of Queer Sex -- Madonna's Postmodern Feminism: Bringing the Margins to the Center -- Gender Trouble: Madonna Poses the Feminist Question -- Madonna Politics: Perversion, Repression, or Subversion? Or Masks and/as Master-y -- Feminist Politics & Postmodern Seductions: Madonna & the Struggle for Political Articulation -- Seduction, Control, & the Search for Authenticity: Madonna's Truth or Dare -- Don't Go for Second Sex, Baby! -- The Political Economy of Postmodernism: Madonna as Star-Commodity -- Metatextual Girl: → patriarchy → postmodernism → power → money → Madonna -- "Material Girl": The Effacements of Postmodern Culture -- The Distance Between Me & You: Madonna & Celestial Navigation (or You Can Be My Lucky Star)