Rosie, Billie, and the Fight for Respect: Feminist Anthems in the Age of Jazz

Part 2 of "From Suffragettes to Taylor Swift: The Feminist History of Protest Songs"

Wikipedia has an article titled “List of feminist anthems” but there’s something a little odd about it. Between “The March of the Women” by Cicely Hamilton in 1910 and Lesley Gore’s 1963 hit “You Don’t Own Me” there’s…nothing.

Music has always been a powerful force for social change, but when women pick up the mic, it becomes something even more electric…