The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion & Rock n'Roll - Hardcover

The Sex Revolts is the first book to look at rebellion and rock ?n? roll through the lens of gender. It finds a paradox at the heart of rock music - it is often most thrilling when it is most misogynist and macho. Provocative and passionately argued, the book walks the tightrope between a rock fan?s excitement and a critic?s awareness of the music?s darker undercurrents. It sheds new light on the angry young men (the Rolling Stones, the Doors, Iggy Pop, the Sex Pistos, and Nirvana) and the psychedelic mystics (Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Syd Barrett and Brian Eno) that make up the rock?n?roll pantheon. And it traces the secret history of female rebellion in rock, from Patti Smith and Kate Bush through the Slits and Siouxsie to contemporary artists like Hole and PJ Harvey. A rich cocktail of rock criticism, cultural studies and feminist theory, The Sex Revolts is set to become the key text in the women-in-rock debate.

Simon Reynolds and Joy Press are married and live in New York. Joy Press is the literary editor of the VLS, the literary supplement to the Village Voice. Simon Reynolds is the author of Blissed Out.