#BuyingOnlyMusicByWomen

I know very little about music. We don't watch reality TV in this house and the teenager is far more likely to be caught listening to Debussy as she is anything on MTV. The music we do own is very male-centric. After all, I like the Red Hot Chili Peppers; hardly a beacon of Feminist-friendly music. I've been making a conscious effort to combat cultural femicide in the music industry by only buying music written by women. I did start several threads on Mumsnet asking for suggestions but, after the annoying stalkery-horseshit by a certain nameless organisation, I had most of my old posts on Mumsnet deleted. I forgot to copy some of the incredible threads about women's music. Every year I make my daughter a women-only playlist for International Women's Day and the last two years this has been with the help of the women of Mumsnet This year the list never got finalised as my laptop had an unfortunate encounter with some tea the week before. Technically, I've finished the list but I keep adding to it and haven't actually made a copy for my daughter yet. 

I'm expanding my feminist activism of #readingonlybookswrittenbywomen into #BuyingOnlyMusicByWomen. So, I'm looking for more suggestion of music written, produced or performed by women who aren't part of the hyper-masculinised music industry and who are controlled and manipulated by men for the sexual pleasure of men.

Some of my Personal Favourites are [in no particular order or strength of love]:

Beth Jeans Houghton
Polly Harvey
Hole
Lucy Ward
Thea Gilmore

Amy Winehouse
Big Mama Thorton
The Slits
Viv Albertine
No Doubt [but not Gwen Stefani's solo stuff]
Marianne Faithfull
Lucinda Williams
Isobel Campbell [with and without Mark Lanegan]
Heather Nova
Imelda May
Diana Ross
Dusty Springfield
Ella Fitzgerald
Alanis Morissette
Aretha Franklin
Gladys Knight
Whitney Houston
Tina Turner
Janis Joplin

This is the suggestions via Mumsnet:

Patti Smith
Emmylou Harris
Pearl Bailey
Karine Polwart
Nanci Griffith
Corrine Bailey Rae
Dinah Washington
Michelle Shocked
Suzanne Vega
Lucie Silvas
Roberta Flack
Le Tigre
Bikini Kill
The Donnas
Wild Flag
Sleater-Kinney
Skunk Anansie
L7
India.Arie
Kristen Hersh
Tanya Donnelly
Throwing Muses
Aimee Mann
Beth Orton
Cowboy Junkies
The Cranberries
Edie Brickell
Elastica
Kathryn Williams
Leftfield
Leslie Feist
Portishead
Tracey Thorn
Liz Frazer
Sandy Denny
Chrissie Hynde
Bjork
Alison Moyet
Lykke Li
School of Seven Bells
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Warpaint
Veruca Salt
Lana del Rey
Nancy Sinatra
Oh Land
Curve
Miranda Sex Garden
Daisy Chainsaw
Mediaeval Baebes
Diamanda Galas
Ute Lemper Alisha's Attic

Some Suggestions from Twitter last week:

Melody Gardot @ClareTwirler
Luscious Jackson @Charitydelux
Cornshead Sisters @Charitydelux