University Of Texas Press

Introduction: An Alternate Ribbon of Time 1. Screaming the Beatles: The First Boy Band Breaks the Gender Mold 2. Oh! You Pretty Things: The Glitter Revolution 3. Whining Is Gender Neutral: Punk's Adolescent Escapism 4. Wreckers of Civilization: Post-punk, Goth, and Industrial 5. Soft Machines: Women, Cyborgs, and Electronic Music 6. Not a Woman, Not a Man: Prince's Sapphic Androgyny 7. The Fake Makes It Real: Synthpop and MTV 8. Infinite Utopia: Queer Time in Disco and House 9. Funky Cyborgs: Time, Technology, and Gender in Hip-Hop 10. Butch Throats: Women's Music and Riot Grrrl 11. God Is Gay: The Grunge Eruption 12. No Shape: The Formless Internet Coda: Whole New World Acknowledgments Notes Index

Prologue Framing Take 1 The Lion and the Cobra As Seen on MTV Rock-'n'-Roll Cassandra SPINning Sinead She'll Talk but You Won't Listen The Takedown Is She Not Your Girl? This Means War We Do Not Want What She Has Got Wrecking Ball Things Need to Change We Need to Talk about Prince Hurt People Hurt Truthful Witness Acknowledgments Notes