ABSTRACT
In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries the concept of celebrity has undergone shifts in meanings, making celebrity seem at once more accessible, attainable and personable, but equally more invasible, and so fragmenting illusions of private life, including in terms of the celebrity's sexual and intimate relations. Traditional approaches to celebrity studies are rooted in film studies and the analysis of stardom. Feminist approaches to celebrity have been important in making sense of the limited roles that women and female celebrities have played in the media and the ways in which their images are presented, especially through the intersections of class, race, sexuality and physical embodiment. The pop star Miley Cyrus is one of the most talked-about celebrities of recent years. Alongside her constant public performance of celebrity through social media, every act or public confession seems worthy of scrutiny for what it represents of the body, sexuality, rumoured sexual practices, sexiness and femininity of Cyrus.
