Table of Contents

Part I Out of bounds - reading race and Madonna's audiences: "a sacred monster in her prime" - audience construction of Madonna as low other, Laurie Schulze, Anne Barton White and Jane D. Brown; 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 II The sapphic insurgent - Madonna and gay culture: embodying subaltern memory - kinesthesia and the problematics of gender and race, Cindy Patton; justify our love - Madonna and the politics of queer sex, Lisa Henderson; Madonna's postmodern feminism - bringing the margins to the centre, Cathy Schwichtenberg. Part III Gender trouble - Madonna poses the feminist question: Madonna politics - perversion, repression or subversion? or masks and/as mastery, E. Ann Kaplan; feminist politics and postmodern seductions - Madonna and the struggle for political articulation, Roseann M. Mandziuk; 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 IV The political economy of postmodernism - Madonna as star-commodity: metatextual girl - patriarchy, postmodernism, power, money, Madonna, David Tetzlaff; "material girl" - the effacements of postmodern culture, Susan Bordo; the distance between you and me - Madonna and celestial navigation (or you can be my lucky star), Greg Seigworth.