The Beyonce Effect: Essays on Sexuality, Race and Feminism

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Feminists Debate Beyoncé (Janell Hobson)
• Beyoncé as Intersectional Icon? Interrogating the Politics of Respectability (Marla H. Kohlman)
• Beyoncé as Aggressive Black Femme and Informed Black Female Subject (Anne M. Mitchell)
• Policing Beyoncé’s Body: “Whose Body Is This Anyway?” (Noel Siqi Duan)
• I’m Not Myself Lately: The Erosion of the Beyoncé Brand (Kristin Lieb)
• The Visual Album: Beyoncé, Feminism and Digital Spaces (Jamila A. Cupid and Nicole ­Files-Thompson)
• Beyoncé and Social Media: Authenticity and the Presentation
• of Self (Melissa Avdeeff)
• Flawless Feminist or Fallible Freak? An Analysis of Feminism, Empowerment and Gender in Beyoncé’s Lyrics (Tia C.M. Tyree and Melvin L. Williams)
• Birthing Baby Blue: Beyoncé and the Changing Face of Celebrity Birth Culture (Natalie Jolly)
• Beyoncé and Blue: Black Motherhood and the Binds of Racialized Sexism (Sonita R. Moss)
• BDSM, Gazes and Wedding Rings: The Centering of Black Female Pleasure and Agency in Beyoncé (Evette Dionne Brown)
• Creole Queen: Beyoncé and Performing Plaçage in the New Millennium (Kimberly J. Chandler)
• Sex(uality), Marriage, Motherhood and “Bey Feminism” (Elizabeth Whittington Cooper)
• About the Contributors
• Index