Oooh, I've been meaning to read this. It sounds great. Thanks for the review!
As someone else in the comments has mentioned, Simon Reynolds strikes me as one critic who seems quite aware of gender issues in rock (because, man, there are just so many people who are all, Whaaaat, these are just the bands I happen to like and that are good JEEZ, if they even acknowledge the absence of women). His book on post-punk, Rip It Up and Start Again*, is one of my very favorite books on music ever. I haven't read The Sex Revolts, his book with Joy Press (another awesome critic, not solely of music), but I'm looking forward to it.
*Which I can lend to you if you promise to give it back! I have the UK edition, which actually matters in this case as apparently the US edition is shorter by almost 200 pages!
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As someone else in the comments has mentioned, Simon Reynolds strikes me as one critic who seems quite aware of gender issues in rock (because, man, there are just so many people who are all, Whaaaat, these are just the bands I happen to like and that are good JEEZ, if they even acknowledge the absence of women). His book on post-punk, Rip It Up and Start Again*, is one of my very favorite books on music ever. I haven't read The Sex Revolts, his book with Joy Press (another awesome critic, not solely of music), but I'm looking forward to it.
*Which I can lend to you if you promise to give it back! I have the UK edition, which actually matters in this case as apparently the US edition is shorter by almost 200 pages!