Women and Femme Voices in Metal Music, Culture, and Scholarship

Foreword by Sarah Kitteringham, Foreword by Kat Shevil Gillham, Acknowledgements, Introduction by Jasmine Hazel Shadrack and Francesca Stevens.

Part 1: The White Boys Club: HIStories, Legacies, and Heritage includes Women's Rescription in Metal's Past, Present, & Future: (Re)writing Metal Canons and Histories by Francesca Stevens, Alien Sounds vs. Endemic Sounds: Women's Presence in Metal Bands by Hale Fulya Celikel SoÄ?anci, Women and Live Music: "Five Quid in or Show us your Tits" by Rosemary Lucy Hill, Not all Bodies are Free to Express Themselves: A Brief Study of Growling from a Material, Measurable and Symbolic Perspective by Mar­a de la Luz Nº±ez, Calm Like a Bomb: Latin American Female Metalheads on Patriarchal Bias and the Potential to Create Safe Spaces by Marisol P©rez-Pelayo, Powerful and Fucking Furious: Trauma, Women and Metal by Kate Quinn, Angela Glaves, Samantha Barton, Slow and Accelerating Violence at the Edge of the Apocalypse: Black Metal's Dark Ecosophy as Strategy of Resistance Against Climate and Social Breakdown by D Ferrett.

Part 2: The Age of Men is Over: HERstories, Reclamation and the Future includes Women on the Margins: A Discussion by Women in Heavy Metal Studies (Amber Clifford-Napoleone, Laina Dawes, Rosemary Lucy Hill, Jasmine Hazel Shadrack) by Amber Clifford-Napoleone, "Where Nightshade Black and Mandrake Grow": DÅloÅ­r as Black Metal Witchcraft, our Strategy of Resistance by Jasmine Hazel Shadrack, Heathen Pilgrimages: Women and Nonbinary People Finding Belonging within Black Metal and Neofolk by Kayley Margarite Whalen, Everything Burns: Lingua Ignota and the Counter-actualisation of Repetition by Lexi Turner, We Deserve to Have a Space Here: Reclaiming Extreme Metal as a Space to Elevate Feminist Voices by Melissa Arkley, Sister Outsider, Sister Love: Embodied Metal Practices of Reconnection, Reconciliation, and Resonation for Decolonising the Body by Susana Gonz¡lez-Mart­nez, Star Attraction in Contemporary Metal Music: Interpreting the Vocal and Physical Work of Alissa White-Gluz by Lori A. Burns.