Adrienne Trier-Bieniek is the chair of sociology and anthropology at Valencia College in Orlando, Florida. She is the editor of numerous books on popular culture.

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

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