Madonna and feminism

The research question for the presentation is based on the idea of Madonna as a pop icon and whether she portrays an image of being an Anti-feminist or not. Madonna image is one that can be described as sexy, erotic and controversially vulgar. We can depict such images from her performances, lyrics and mostly from the image that the media portrays of the famous pop icon. The three main components behind Madonna and her work is her image portrayed, lyrics and symbolic menaing behind her music.

I would like to focus on one of Madonna's famous songs titled "Like a Virgin". These lyrics clearly highlight a sense of innocence, the need of a male figure and it blatantly enforces the aspect of sexuality, through the title of the song, "Like a Virgin", which Madonna clearly is not. From listening and reviewing Madonnas music it seems that the themes represented in her music cover wilderness and survival, sexuality as mentioned before, romance, religion and urban survival. All these themes ...