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The Madonna Phenomenon

In her recent book, Postfeminisms, Ann Brooks argues that many current feminist debates over popular culture's potential as a site of `political and representational contestation' can be seen to coalesce `around Madonna as a popular cultural icon'. (1) That is, from the moment she first exploded on the international music scene in the early 1980s with her chart-topping debut album, Madonna has positioned herself centrally and controversially at the cultural intersection between sexual politics and consumerism, at the intersection, in other words, of what represents a strategic site for feminism's ongoing intervention into the arena of ...

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