Bundel met feitelijke informatie en kritische beschouwingen over vrouwen in niet-klassieke muziekgenres, over meisjesgroepen, fans en groupies en de nieuwe man in de rockmuziek. Met bijdragen over o.a.: Billie Holiday, Ruth Brown, Etta James, Carole King, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Laura Nyro, Wanda Jackson, Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, Bette Midler, Karen Carpenter, Yoko Ono, Nico, Marianne Faithfull, Patti Smith, Jayne County, Chrissie Hynde, Donna Summer, Annabella Lwin, Madonna, Sinéad O'Connor, Janet Jackson, Selena, Maureen Tucker, Tina Weymouth, Tara Key, Laurie Anderson, Kim Gordon, Courtney Love, Neneh Cherry, Me'Shell Ndegéocello, Liz Phair, Polly Jean Harvey.
Patti Smith (1946-) and Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) found each other on the streets of New York City in the late '60s and made a pact to keep each other afloat until they found their voices--or the world was ready to hear them. Lovers first and then friends as Mapplethorpe discovered he was gay. Mapplethorpe was quicker to find his metier, with a Polaroid and then a Hasselblad, but Smith was the first to fame, transformed from a poet into a rock star. Mapplethorpe soon became famous too before his death from AIDS in 1989. Smith's memoir of their friendship, Just Kids, is open-eyed with the oracular style familiar from her anthems like 'Because the Night,' 'Gloria,' and 'Dancing Barefoot' balanced by her powers of observation and memory for everyday details .