At the beginning of the 1990s, the Senate didn't believe Anita
Hill, Rush Limbaugh compared feminists to Nazis, and a study found
that girls tended to start hating themselves during adolescence. It
was a hard time to be a young woman, to be growing up on promises
of equal rights that didn't square with reality. Sexual assault
rates reached record highs; harassment was rife in the schools;
and, boys still would be boys, and girls still had to watch what
they wore and where they walked. It was enough to make a girl want
to scream. Riot Grrrl roared into the spotlight in 1991: an
uncompromising movement of pissed-off girls who had no patience for
sexism, no stomach for double standards, and no intention of
keeping quiet. Incendiary punk bands - like Bratmobile, Heavens to
Betsy, and above all Bikini Kill, fronted by the magnetic,
prophetic Kathleen Hanna - spread the word. Thousands of riot
grrrls published handmade magazines, founded local groups, and
organised conventions. The movement spread from its birthplaces of
Washington, D.C. and Olympia, Washington, to the Midwest, Canada,
Europe, and beyond. "Girls to the Front", the first-ever history of
Riot Grrrl, is a gripping narrative with a sound track: a lyrical,
punk-infused chronicle of a group of extraordinary young women
coming of age angrily, collectively, and publicly. It's the story
of a time when America thought feminism was dead, and feminism
seemed to buy into the slacker myths of Generation X, but a
generation of noisy girls rose up to prove everybody wrong. Above
all, it's a story about looking for your place in the world - and
finally creating it yourself.
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