"Based in part on interviews with Madonna, this biography focuses closely on her musical accomplishments, her pioneering work in rock videos, her adept manipulations of religious and sexual controversy, and her ability to constantly reinvent her image. Effectively recounting her…
Perhaps the most important female entertainer of the last two decades, Madonna Louise Ciccone has led a fascinating life. This is her story.
A biography of the mega-star pop singer and actor charts her rise from penniless midwestern girl living in New York in the 1970s to one of the wealthiest women in the music industry.
<Goddess</ is the book that Madonna and her entourage did not want published. Long before the star could instruct her family and friends not to talk to the author, Barbara Victor spent more than eighteen months in Michigan, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, California, New York…
"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?…
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? …
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? …
This book explores and defines 'unruliness' through eleven portraits of women. Unruly women are characterized as controversial figures in terms of what is considered as acceptable feminine behaviour. The author examines why the Western culture both love and critisize these perso…