Madonna: Bawdy and Soul

by Karlene Faith

Book Overview

How do bad girls get away with it? How did Madonna, subject of public outcry for her controversial performances and her book Sex, become a superstar of pop culture and a role model for teenage girls? Why now, as star of Evita and a new mother, is she becoming a mainstream hero?

Karlene Faith says that Madonna signifies the times we live in. We are, in a sense, all responsible for who Madonna is. As fans, moral critics, media journalists,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802080634
• ISBN13: 9780802080639
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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A New Interesting Book of Madonna Studies

As a Madonna fan with a feminist identity (I'm a member of an organization of Women's Studies), I have read so many books and articles about her. What has confused me is that most of the authors have "objectified" the artist. But Karlene Faith does not. I'm curious about what Faith thinks of Madonna's "Ray of Light" era, and of her own recent explanation about her works in the early 1990s. Anyway, BAWDY & SOUL is an interesting, recommendable book. Even if you are not a scholar of so-called "Madonna Studies", I think you can enjoy it. When it is translated into my mother tongue, I think I would tell my friends to read it.