Girls to the Front

Girls to the Front is the epic, definitive history of Riot Grrrl the radical feminist uprising that exploded into the public eye in the 1990s and included incendiary punk bands Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Heavens to Betsy, and Huggy Bear A dynamic chronicle not just a movement but an era, this is the story of a group of pissed off girls with no patience for sexism and no intention of keeping quiet. New Download Girls to the Front [ author ] Sara Marcus [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr REVOLUTION GIRL STYLENOOOOWWWW So began the primal scream of a frustrated girl, an angry band, a feminist movement Girls to the Front is about the Riot Grrrl movement of the early 90s, and when you speak of Riot Grrrl, you speak of Kathleen Hanna and her band Bikini Kill Hanna released her rage against the sexism that surrounded her through music, discovering a sort of cadre of like minded girls in Olympia, WA, some of whom were already entrenched in grassroots feminist punk ideology REVOLUTION GIRL STYLENOOOOWWWW So began the primal scream of a frustrated girl, an angry band, a feminist movement Girls to the Front is about the Riot Grrrl movement of the early 90s, and when you speak of Riot Grrrl, you speak of Kathleen Hanna and her band Bikini Kill Hanna released her rage against the sexism that surrounded her through music, discovering a sort of cadre of like minded girls in Olympia, WA, some of whom were already entrenched in grassroots feminist punk ideology Together they formed a united sisterhood that sought an end to sexist behavior and actions be it catcalls or rape through violence if ...I felt profoundly disappointed by this I feel almost as if I had another expectation of what Riot Grrrl was, and this book sort of killed it.Sadly, I felt like there was a structural problem to this book The author was either too in love with the subject, or she wasn t removed enough from the activities There was a tonal problem to what was written here.I also felt that the book had way too much of a focus on Kathleen Hanna, but again, I think that s because I expected her to be chronicling s I felt profoundly disappointed by this I feel almost as if I had another expectation of what Riot Grrrl was, and this book sort of killed it.Sadly, I fe...According to the library print out left inside this book, in 2013 someone else checked this book out along with Excluded Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive, The Riot Grrrl Collection, and How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You.I want to know that person.I was a smidge too young when Riot Grrrl was a thing that was happening In fact, by the time actually I heard of it, it was essentially over and one of the letter r s had been dropped from the second word I always se According to the library print out left inside this book, in 2013 someone else checked this book out along with Excluded Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive, The Riot Grrrl Collection, and How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You.I want to know that person.I was a smidge too young when Riot Grrrl was a thing that was happening In fact, by the time actually I heard of it, it was essentially over and one of the letter r s had been dropped from the second word I always seemed to see it called Riot Grrl Maybe that was laziness from people later, or maybe I m just mis remembering In any case, what I do know is I missed out on the original movement, and that s always made me a little sad Like they might have been my people, but I would never actually know because our paths didn t cross at the right time Like a Missed Connection listing.Int...Tobi Vail has discussed this book here and here Johanna Fateman has discussed it here.Allison Wolfe discussed it here I found all of their reviews and insights to be a great supplement to the actual book, since Sara Marcus worked on this book for five years, researched the hell out of it, but didn t cover everything or get it all right You could say that no one could cover everything or get it all right, and ok, that s true I have really been soul searching over the last two weeks, trying to Tobi Vail has discussed this book here and here Johanna Fateman has discussed it here.Allison Wolfe discussed it here I found all of their reviews and insights to be a great supplement to the actual book, since Sara Marcus worked on this book for five years, researched the hell out of it, but didn t cover everything or get it all right You could say that no one could cover everything or get it all right, and ok, that s true I have really been soul searching over t...i was nervous but excited to read this book i bought it six months ago kept putting it off because i wanted to be able to really relish it, i kept thinking i should read my library books first i always have a new library book but i finally read this last week it was awesome.first of all, i m not going to pretend that this is perfect book all historical accounts are subjective, even when they were written by people who wer...1 Girls to the Front has a lot of issues That s fine Or it could be fine I mean, in theory But Girls to the Front also has a lot of problems, and ends up being totally disappointing and weirdly tone deaf Oh God, is that even acceptable in a discussion about a music book Ugh Probably not Sorry, everyone OKAY, to be fair maybe it is less GttF has a lot of problems andI have a lot of problems with GttF 2 Whenever there s a, like, a feminism contest you know what I mean, t 1 Girls to the Front has a lot of issues That s fine Or it could be fine I mean, in theory But Girls to the Front also has a lot of problems, and ends up being totally disappointing and weirdly tone deaf Oh God, is that even acceptable in a discussion about a music book Ugh Probably not Sorry, everyone OKAY, to be fair maybe it is less GttF has a lot of problems andI have a lot of problems with GttF 2 Whenever there s a, like, a feminism contest you know what I mean, these people are good feminists, these people are bad feminists it gets fucked up pretty quickly So I wasn t surprised about that I read feminist blogs, I am familiar with girl on girl crime of the you are holding your sisters back, you stupid slutty tool of the patriarchy variety And that stuff has been endemic in feminism since the beginning, right Victoria Woodhull, The Sealed Letter, the Sarah Grand or Mary Jeune, and on and on and that s only when we re talking about a bunch of straight cis whi...For a book claiming to be the true story of the Riot Grrrl movement, its author Sara Marcus is negligent with at least a few of the facts It is neither responsible nor ethical to interview someone for a book and then to take such creative license as to purposely downplay how much family violence they stated having experienced growing up, to lift lines str...Reading Girls to the Front made me realize how little I really know about riot grrrl In my defense, during the years portrayed in this book, I was attending a suburban Catholic university with a conservative administration and a mostly conservative student body The fact that I read Gloria Steinem and listened to Tori Amos made meradical than about 97 percent of the people there So really, most of what I know about riot grrrl I learned from Sassy magazine.For this reason, I found this bo Reading Girls to the Front made me realize how little I really know about riot grrrl In my defense, during the years portrayed in this book, I was attending a suburban Catholic university with a conservative administration and a mostly conservative student body The fact that I read Gloria Steinem and listened to Tori Amos made meradical than about 97 percent of the people there So really, most of what I know about riot grrrl I learned from Sassy magazine.For this reason, I found this book fascinating from a purely informational standpoint It was great to learnabout the key players mostly musicians and their scenes, about the regular non musician girls who picked up the gau...1 I decided to read this book because I am very interested in Riot Grrrl culture and the feminist revolution in the 1990 s It interested me because it was written by a woman who was a part of the revolution and gave first hand recounts of what happened, as well as interviewed some of the girls who were at the front lines of the revolution.2 This book completes the Books that teach you about a different time in history category because it is about events that happened in the 1980s and 90s I 1 I decided to read this book because I am very interested in Riot Grrrl culture and the feminist revolution in the 1990 s It interested me because it was written by a woman who was a part of the revolution and gave first hand recounts of what happened, as well as interviewed some of the girls who were at the front lines of the revolution.2 This book completes the Books that teach you about a different time in history category because it is about events that happened in the 1980s and 90s I like reading books in this category because it teaches you about real life things that happened and historical events.3 The ideas in this bo...Every Girl is a Riot Grrrl Was the message of this book that I could relate to I graduated from high school in 1999 in a very small town in upstate New York My cousin Jeff, who was 3 years older than me, introduced me to hardcore punk rock and skating music, and I gobbled it up I loved the energy of the mosh pit, the political rants, plus, I could throw elbows and slam dance with the best of them However, after one particularly rough show, I ended up with some broken toes and that s when I Every Girl is a Riot Grr...

• English
• 07 January 2017
Sara Marcus
• Paperback
• 330 pages
• 0061806366
• Sara Marcus
• Girls to the Front