GIRLS TO THE FRONT
Sara Marcus’s Girls to the Front is a great & true & real history. Thank God. At last.
—Eileen Myles, poet, critic, and author of Chelsea Girls
Feminism seems to change every five years. It’s hard to grasp the movement. But you don’t have to live a lifetime to get the idea and energy of it, and Sara Marcus’s book channels what it is to make it yr own. Girls to the Front is not just a keeper of the flame but brings you to yr own fire.
—Kim Gordon
Original, witty, idealistic and down-to-earth, Girls to the Front is a chronicle of women, girls, music, sexism—and, best of all, what it means to be alive. Reader take heart: Feminism is not dead; Generation X is not asleep; friends do matter, and stories will be told.
—Brenda Wineapple, author of White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
For a Second Wave feminist like myself, this book evokes wonderfully the way the generation after mine soaked up the promise and the punishment of feminist consciousness: all in all, a richly moving story.
—Vivian Gornick, author of Fierce Attachments
While absolutely a history of Riot Grrrl and seminal bands deeply involved with and responsible for the subculture, Girls to the Front is also about every girl ever. . . Marcus never loses sight of what made its message of empowerment and self-expression important to so many. This is a thoughtful, careful exploration of that cultural moment. And it’s a taut, visceral read. more>
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