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A country music song in which an unappreciated wife leaves her husband of 15 years to join the workforce. [15] 1993: Bikini Kill "Rebel Girl" Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah: Produced by Joan Jett who also plays guitar, the song celebrates the sisterhood of punk. It is a leading example of the 1990s riot grrrl feminist movement. [15] [7] 1993: Queen ...
Pages in category "Songs with feminist themes" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 447 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Women's music is a type of music base on the ideas of feminist separatism and lesbian-separatism, designed to inspire feminist consciousness, [1] chiefly in Western popular music, to promote music "by women, for women, and about women".
The 1990s also saw a sizable movement of pro-women's rights protest songs from many musical genres as part of the Third-wave feminism movement. Ani DiFranco was at the forefront of this movement, protesting sexism, sexual abuse, homophobia, reproductive rights as well as racism, poverty, and war. Her "Lost Woman Song" (1990) concerns itself ...
A new recording of the song was released as a single in May 1972 and became a number-one hit later that year, eventually selling over one million copies. The song came near the apex of the counterculture era [1] and, by celebrating female empowerment, became an enduring feminist anthem for the women's liberation movement. Following Reddy's ...
The song was entitled, "The Battle Hymn of Women," replacing the lyrics, "glory, glory hallelujah," with, "move on over or we'll move on over you." [4] The introduction of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the 1970s led to the rise of pop culture songs playing a role in the feminist movement. [4]
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: 4B movement update: Here's how 'feminist sex' is changing. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. Holiday Shopping Guides. See all. AOL.
An 18th-century example of a topical song intended as a feminist protest song is "Rights of Woman" (1795), sung to the tune of "God Save the King", written anonymously by "A Lady" and published in the Philadelphia Minerva, October 17, 1795. There is no evidence that it was ever sung as a movement song, however. [5]