My source says that the UK girl-punk bands like the Slits, Raincoats, & X-Ray Spex might be covered a little bit in the book "England's Dreaming", and possibly some in the Simon Reynolds book "The Sex Revolts", but agrees that there is a distinct lack in treatment of the US girl-punk bands like the Runaways. It would be interesting to see a book connecting punk & post-punk up with the riot-grrl stuff like L7 and Sleater-Kinney. A lot of the female bands of the early 80s were a little more on the New Wave side.