I really could have gone with just about any song on this album and found some sort of connection to this chapter. Out of all the songs though, I found myself making the most connections in Partition. Partition is probably the most sexual song on this album. Beyonce’s focus in this song is really all about this fantasy she has about her and her husband. She wants to be everything that he wants in a girl.
In the hook of this song Beyonce is making it clear that she wants to be possessed by Jay. She says “take all of me I just wanna be the girl you like, girl you like The kinda girl you like, girl you like.” She wants to be everything that he could ever want, so that he would never want another girl. Which goes back to what is said in the chapter about the role of women in media being “to satisfy the male gaze and, ultimately, to be possessed.” This entire music video is for the viewing pleasure of men. Especially at 2:01 where she is seen basically naked on a reflective table. There is not one part of this music video that isn’t showing her trying to seduce her husband.
This song could also represent Beyonce being, what the book calls, a post-feminist: “more independent, assertive versions of femininity - something that can sometimes include a proud and explicit quest for sex.” Beyonce is definitely on a quest for sex in this song. Which could be seen as her just wanting to get Jays attention, or you can look at it as her just being more assertive. She starts the song off by saying “Driver roll up the partition please/Driver roll up the partition please/I don't need you seeing yoncé on her knees/Took 45 minutes to get all dressed up/We ain't even gonna make it to this club.” If you're watching the music video, she makes it clear to her audience that she’s on a quest for sex before the lyrics even begin. At around: 20 seconds she starts making gestures towards what we can assume is her husband. Also towards the end of the song Beyonce adds a part thats spoken in French but when translated to English it says “Do you like sex?/Sex, I mean : physical activity, coitus. You like it?/Are you not interested in sex?/Men think that feminists hate sex but it’s an exciting and natural activity that women love.” She wants to be assertive and sexual but still wants everyone to see her as a feminist. She adds these little reminders at the end of quite a few of her songs to put the idea out there that you can be sexual, you can be open about it, and you can still be considered a feminist or what the books describes as post-feminist. 