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The Rebel Madame: Madonna’s Postmodern Revolution
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Diego Santos Vieira de Jesus
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2021.01.004
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ESPM-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
ABSTRACT
The aim is to examine Madonna’s revolution regarding gender, sexuality, politics, and religion with the focus on her songs, videos, and live performances. The main argument indicates that Madonna has used postmodern strategies of representation to challenge the foundational truths of sex and gender, promote gender deconstruction and sexual multiplicity, create political sites of resistance, question the Catholic dissociation between the physical and the divine, and bring visual and musical influences from multiple cultures and marginalized identities.
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Madonna, postmodernism, pop culture, sex, gender, sexuality, politics, religion, spirituality
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Butler, J. (2003). Bodies that matter: on the discursive limits of sex. New York: Routledge.
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Gender Construction in Women’s Rock Music.” The Journal of
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Gusmão, R., & Araújo, S. (2019). Urban simulacrum and Madonna: The post-modern environment of music videos. Contracampo, 38(1), 108-121.
Huyssen, A. (2006). Después de la gran división: modernismo, cultura de massas, posmodernismo. Buenos Aires: A. Hidalgo.
Jesus, D .S. V. (2020). Necropolitics and necrocapitalism: the impact of COVID-19 on Brazilian creative economy. Modern Economy, 11(6), 1121-1140.
Jesus, D. S. V. (2009). Da redução da incerteza estratégica à perpetuação da exclusão: a relevância dos fatores ideacionais na análise de política externa. Contexto internacional, 31(3), 503-534.
Jesus, D. S. V. (2010). Alternative analytical axes of Brazilian foreign policy. International Political Sociology, 4(4), 419-435.
Jesus, D. S. V. (2011). Desde Angra hacia Teherán: la política nuclear brasileña bajo la administración Lula. América Latina Hoy, 58, 103-120.
Jesus, D. S. V. (2012). Noites tropicais: o Brasil e a nova era da não proliferação e do desarmamento nucleares (2003-2010). Revista de Sociologia e Política, 20(43), 43-57.
Jesus, D. S. V. (2013a). De Nova York a Durban: o processo de institucionalização do BRICS. Oikos, 12(1), 32-62.
Jesus, D. S. V. (2013b). Lighting the fire: Brazil’s energy diplomacy, 2003-2010. Diplomacy & Statecraft, 24(3), 499-515.
Jesus, D. S. V. (2014a). Mundo macho: homens, masculinidades e relações internacionais. Revista Brasileira de Estudos Políticos, 109, 309-364.
Jesus, D. S. V. (2014b). O mundo fora do armário: teoria queer e relações internacionais. Ártemis, 17, 41-51.
Jesus, D. S. V. (2017a). A arte do encontro: a paradiplomacia e a internacionalização das cidades criativas. Revista de Sociologia e Política, 25(61), 51-76.
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Jesus, D. S. V., Kamlot, D., & Dubeux, V. J. C. (2019). The decline of creative education in the city of Rio de Janeiro: Main causes and consequences. Creative Education, 10, 1670-1684.
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O’Brien, L. (2018). Madonna—60 Anos. Rio de Janeiro: Agir.
Patton, C. (1992). In vogue: The “Place” of “Gay Theory”. Pre-Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory, 13(3-4), 151-157.
Popular Culture 39.1 (2006): 69–94
Prieto-Arranz, J. I. (2012). The semiotics of performance and success in madonna. The Journal of Popular Culture, 45(1), 173-196.
Rubin, G. (1975). The traffic in women: Notes on the ‘Political Economy’ of sex. In R. R. Reiter (Ed.), Toward an anthropology of women (pp. 178-185). New York: Monthly Review Press.
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Schwichtenberg, C. (2019). The Madonna connection: Representational politics, subcultural identities, and cultural theory. New York: Routledge.
Troldahl, A. L. (2013). Like a Queen—Madonna & the stage as court in the era of social media (M.A.—Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, University of Vienna. Vienna, Austria).
Tsanev, S. (2006). Appropriating the inappropriate: Madonna and the cultural construction of an icon. Lehigh Review, 14, 1-14.
Urry, J. (2000). The tourist gaze. Leisure and travel in contemporary societies. London: Sage.