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Susana Gonzlez-Martnez investigates feminist ideologies in metal music and demonstrates techniques of socio-political resistance for usage in real communities and in daily life. This book invites a multidimensional appreciation of the artistic phenomenon of feminist metal. It sheds light on feminist artistic practices emerging from the margins of music scenes, highlighting their artistic, social, and pedagogical contributions to metal cultures and communities, to feminisms in general, and to the educational sphere. It therefore places the voices and wisdom of underground artists at the center of discussions of feminist art, social psychology, and critical and restorative feminist pedagogies. In short, it shows what feminist metal teaches us - its strategies, ways of doing, and resistance techniques - and how we can apply them in classrooms and socio-community interventions to address vital socio-political issues. Feminist metal can foster people's critical understanding of their realities, provide them with techniques and tools to navigate daily life challenges, and enable them to contribute positively to their environments and communities, fostering a more livable world for all.

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""The author has curated a space that is about raising women up, and yes, I mean ALL women; ... It is beautifully written, rigorously and expertly researched, and fiercely feminist and anti-colonial, committed to our full artistic emancipation. ... It's not very often an academic text will move my emotions so much I have tears in my eyes, but this is it. If a heart could be a book, this would be mine."" --Dr. Jasmine Shadrack, author of Black Metal, Trauma, Subjectivity and Sound: Screaming the Abyss (2021) ""Impressive in its breadth of analysis and erudite in its reasoning, Susana González-Martínez's liberating book provides a dazzling exploration of the possibilities that abound within feminist metal music studies. Along the way, it overthrows established notions of metal's transgressiveness as an art form, in the process revealing itself as essential reading for enthusiasts and academics alike."" --Dr. Nedim Hassan, Chief Editor Metal Music Studies

Author Information

Susana González-Martínez is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral researcher at the Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki, Finland, where she investigates the interrelation between women's spirituality and creativity. She serves as the President of the Metal Music Studies Spain Association as well as Associate Editor of the Metal Music Studies journal. She is the host of the VII International Society for Metal Music Studies Biennial Research Conference and has organized four meetings of the Rock & Metal Encounter Conference. She has led the community-based research project Breakthrough Ritual on gender barriers in the international metal music scene and served on the Scientific Committee for the UNAM International Gender Conference and as a juror for the Laureana Wright Prize for best feminist research.

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