Preface / Ellen Willis --
Introduction / Barbara O'Dair --
I. THE PIONEERS OF ROCK & ROLL: BLUES, JAZZ, GOSPEL, RHYTHM & BLUES, AND COUNTRY --
Little Mamas, Wild Women, and Balls of Fire: The Blues: Mamie Smith, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Memphis Minnie, Sippie Wallace, Victoria Spivey, Big Mama Thornton, Koko Taylor / Ariel Swartley --
Our Lady of Perpetual Suffering, Revisted: Billie Holiday / Carol Cooper --
Heavenly Creatures: The Great Gospel Singers: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Clara Ward, Mahalia Jackson, Marion Williams / Susan Richardson --
Smooth Sass and Raw Power: R&B's Ruth Brown and Etta James / Alice Echols --
Hillbilly Fillies: The Trailblazers of C&W: The Carter Family, Kitty Wells, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris / Holly George-Warren --
II. SPARROWS AND POWERHOUSES: POP, FOLK, AND ROCK IN THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES --
Pop Chicks: Fluff to Tough: Nancy Sinatra, Cher, Lulu, Petula Clark, Dionne Warwick, Dusty Springfield, and others / Karen Schoemer --
Carole King / Roberta Burkely --
Aretha Franklin / Ann Powers --
Girls Groups: A Ballad of Codependency: The Chantels, the Ronettes, the Shangri-Las, the Crystals / Donna Gaines --
Diana Ross / Diane Cardwell --
Charmed Circle: Folksingers and Singer-Songwriters: Joan Baez, Odetta, Ronnie Gilbert, Judy Collins, Peggy Seeger, Alix Dobkin, Sandy Denny, and others / Leslie Berman --
Laura Nyro / Patricia Romanowski --
Red Blue Jeans: Wanda Jackson and Grace Slick / Ariel Swartley --
III. ELECTRIC LADYLAND: ROCK IN THE SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES --
Janis Joplin / Terri Sutton --
Tina Turner / Christian Wright --
Joni Mitchell / Lisa Kennedy --
The Love You Make: Fans and Groupies / Ann Powers --
Bonnie Raitt / Patricia Romanowski --
Linda Ronstadt / Karen Schoemer --
Bette Midler: A Divine Timeline / Ann Abel --
Technophilia: Women at the Control Board / Andrea Odintz --
IV. REBEL REBEL: POP AND PUNK IN THE SEVENTIES --
Midnight Train: A Teenage Story: Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight, Nina Simone / Kathy Dobie --
Karen Carpenter / Sue Cummings --
Yoko Ono / Arion Berger --
Nico / Holly George-Warren --
Marianne Faithfull / Stacey D'Erasmo --
Patti Smith / Deborah Frost --
Inside Was Us: Women and Punk: Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, Tina Weymouth, Exene Cervenka, and others / Carola Dibbell --
Jayne County: Man Enough to Be a Woman / Donna Gaines --
Shouting Out Loud: Women in U.K. Punk: Siouxsie Sioux, Poly Styrene, the Slits, Au Pairs, the Raincoats / Joy Press --
Chrissie Hynde / Amy Raphael --
Good Golly, Svengali: Donna Summer and Annabella Lwin / Carol Cooper --
V. DIVAS AND B-GIRLS: FROM THE SEVENTIES TO TODAY --
Bohemian Rhapsodies: Kate Bush, Stevie Nicks, Heart, Lene Lovich, Cyndi Lauper, the Roches, Kristin Hersch, Jane Siberry, Diamanda Galás, Björk, Sarah McLachlan, and others / Ann Powers --
Madonna / Mim Udovitch --
Beyond Sucker MCs: Hip-Hop Women: Roxanne Shanté, Salt-n-Pepa, Queen Latifah, Monie Love, MC Lyte, and others / Mimi Valdés --
The Singer and the Song: Rickie Lee Jones, Annie Lennox, Suzanne Vega, Tracy Chapman, Natalie Merchant, k.d. lang, Melissa Etheridge, Sam Phillips, Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morissette, Joan Osborne / Elysa Gardner --
Sinéad O'Connor / Ann Powers --
Janet Jackson / Danyel Smith --
Smooth Operators: Contemporary R&B: Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Jody Watley, Mary J. Blige, TLC, and others / Amy Linden --
Selena / Daisann McLane --
VI. OH, YOU PRETTY THINGS!: TOWARD THE MILLENNIUM --
Garageland: Goldie and the Gingerbreads, Fanny, the Runaways, the Go-Go's, the Bangles, L7, Luscious Jackson, and others / Deborah Frost --
She's in the Band: Maureen Tucker, Tina Weymouth, and Tara Key / Evelyn McDonnell --
Chicks With Picks / Compiled by Gina Arnold and Shawn Dahl --
Laurie Anderson / Gillian G. Gaar --
Kim Gordon / Christina Kelly --
Rebel Grrrls: Frightwig, Bikini Kill, Huggy Bear, Babes in Toyland, Fifth Column, Mecca Normal, Tribe 8, and others / Evelyn McDonnell --
Courtney Love / Katherine Dieckmann --
The Great Indie Debate / Emily White --
Fierce Folkies: Contemporary Roots Music: Ferron, Lucinda Williams, Rosanne Cash, Barbara Manning, Ani DiFranco, Lois Maffeo, Iris DeMent, Victoria Williams, and others / Terri Sutton --
Desolation Angels: The Misfits of Women's Lit: Exene Cervenka, Maggie Estep, Lydia Lunch, Marisela Norte, Pleasant Gehman, Dana Bryant, and others / Holly George-Warren --
Neneh Cherry / Vivien Goldman --
Me'Shell Ndegéocello / Sara Scribner --
True Confessions: Alternative Sounds: Juliana Hatfield, Tanya Donelly, Aimee Mann, the Breeders, Elastica, Veruca Salt, and others / Jancee Dunn --
The Soft Boys: The New Man in Rock / Terri Sutton --
Liz Phair / Lorraine Ali --
Polly Jean Harvey / Barbara O'Dair --
Books on Music Genres, Movements, and History --
Biographies and Autobiographies --
