| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

Electric Ladyland: Women and Rock Culture. By Lisa L. Rhodes. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. xvi, 310 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8122-3840-0. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8122-1899-X.)

Electric Ladyland sets itself apart from other book-length studies of women and rock music in two primary ways. First, the book is focused on a rather narrow span of time, the decade from 1965 to 1975, a period that saw dramatic changes in the meaning of rock and in the broader definition of sexual politics in the United States. Second, and more important, the author, Lisa L. Rhodes, is not primarily concerned—as have been the majority of authors to address the subject—with the achievements of a pantheon of female performers. Rhodes is more concerned with issues of representation: her main subject is how women were portrayed as participants in rock and specifically how they were portrayed in print media during the period under consideration. While this emphasis limits the scope of her insights to some extent, it also allows her to uncover some disturbing trends and draw attention to some notable but oft-overlooked figures.

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