Table of Contents

Track Listing
Introduction: Good Girls and Go-Go’s
1. Like the Buzzcocks, but Women
2. Good Luck Enterprising Girl Groups
3. From Punk to Pop
4. America’s Sweethearts from Hell
5. Step Aside REO Speedwagon
6. The F-Word
7. We Haven’t Come a Long Way, Baby
Conclusion: They Still Got the Beat
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments

Promotional Information

Celebrates the feminist legacy of the Go-Go's debut album Beauty and the Beat, explores the lasting influence the ground-breaking record had on female musicians and examines how pop culture portrays, packages and promotes female musicians

About the Author

Lisa Whittington-Hill is a writer based in Toronto, Canada. Her work has appeared in Longreads, The Walrus, Hazlitt, Catapult, and more. Girls, Interrupted, her collection of essays on how pop culture is failing women, will be published by VéhiculePress in 2023. She is also the publisher of This Magazine, a progressive magazine of politics, ideas, and culture, and teaches in the publishing program at Centennial College.