The Lemonade Reader

Contents

• Foreword by Candice Benbow;
• Preface by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting; Acknowledgements;
• Introduction by Kinitra D. Brooks & Kameelah L. Martin; Interlude A: What Do We Want from Beyonce? by Maiysha Kai; Interlude B: Bittersweet Like Me: When the Lemonade Ain't Made For Fat Black Femmes and Women by Ashleigh Shackelford;
• Part I : Some Shit is Just for Us Chapter One --Some Shit is Just for Us: Intro by Cheryl Finley and Deborah Willis; Chapter Two --Something Akin to Freedom: Sexual Love, Political Agency, and Lemonade by Lindsey Stewart; Chapter Three-- Getting to
• Part II : Of Her Spiritual Strivings Chapter Six --Looking for Beyonce's Spiritual Longing: The Power of Visual/Sonic Meaning-Making by Valerie Bridgeman; Chapter Seven --Beyonce's Lemonade Folklore: Feminine Reverberations of Odu and Afro-Cuban
• Part III : The Lady Sings Her Legacy Chapter Twelve -- The Lady Sings Her Legacy:
• Introduction by Daphne Brooks; Chapter Thirteen --To Feel Like a "Natural Woman": Aretha Franklin, Beyonce and the Ecological Spirituality of Lemonade by Michele Prettyman Beverly; Chapter Fourteen --Beyonce's Western South Serenade by Tyina Steptoe; Ch