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Rock’n’Role: Are Singers The New Feminist Icons?

Lucy O'Brien, Guardian, The, 21 December 1998

IN THE US, they call it the Third Wave – a new feminism for a new generation. It is fuelled by popular culture in general and music in particular, and its icons are women with the right attitude, the right looks and a microphone.

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