Several readers directed us to The AV Club‘s list of “well-intended yet misguided feminist anthems” — inspiring us to list a few more successful ditties, and to wonder what makes a feminist song ...

John Lennon was a musical genius, but he said plenty of ridiculous things, such as that he wrote the first feminist song. No, he didn’t. More than that, it’s highly dubious that the song in question ...

When she was in college, Zoë Dominguez challenged herself to write a feminist rock song. She knew that assigning personal stakes to a big social issue would be difficult, but that was the whole point.

Country icon Loretta Lynn might not have considered herself a feminist, but that didn’t stop her from creating countless songs that contributed to a significant change in women’s voices in music. Lynn ...

Rachel Sumner’s bluegrass band, Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light, plays to tradition but stretches it, too, with feminist songs they call ‘Femericana’ When Rachel Sumner was 18 and an aspiring ...