A Women’s History of the Beatles

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introducing A Women's History of the Beatles
1. "Remember Me:" Stories from Merseyside
2. With the Beatles: A Fan History
3. "Don't Blame it On Yoko": Wives and Girlfriends in the Beatles Fairy Tale
4. "Free as a Bird": Music-Making and the Liberatory Beatlesque
5. "Think For Yourself": Entrepreneurs and Intellectuals Conclusion: Beatles History, Women's Lives Notes Bibliography Index

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Winner of the 2022 Open Publication Prize by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-ANZ) A Women’s History of the Beatles is the first book to offer a detailed presentation of the band’s social and cultural impact as understood through the experiences and lives of women. Drawing on a mix of interviews, archival research, textual analysis, and autoethnography, this scholarly work depicts how the Beatles have profoundly shaped and enriched the lives of women, while also reexamining key, influential female figures within the group’s history. Organized topically based on key themes important to the Beatles story, each chapter uncovers the varied and multifaceted relationships women have had with the band, whether face-to-face and intimately or parasocially through mediated, popular culture. Set within a socio-historical context that charts changing gender norms since the early 1960s, these narratives consider how the Beatles have affected women’s lives across three generations. Providing a fresh perspective of a well-known tale, this is a cultural history that moves far beyond the screams of Beatlemania to offer a more comprehensive understanding of what the now iconic band has meant to women over the course of six decades.

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A Women's History of the Beatles illuminates and stresses that how we tell stories matters, and the positions from which we tell them can affect the narratives that come forth ... [It's] historically minded, drawing on recollections from women whose lives both shaped and were shaped by the band, as well as forward-looking, considering the careers of women in various parts of the globe for whom The Beatles became a starting point for their own life's work

The number of existing texts on John, Paul, George, and Ringo is far too voluminous to list ... Feldman-Barrett's contribution nonetheless leaps out as indispensable amidst the broad and in-depth stories that have already been told about The Beatles. -- Audrey J. Golden

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