PositiveNPRA self-proclaimed \'feminist music history from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot,\' the book doesn\'t just retell the story of punk with an added woman or two; it centers the relationships between gender and the genre, showing how, through the right lens, the story of punk is a story about women\'s ingenuity and power ... in keeping with her ethos that our traditional notions of punk can cut important voices out of the story, Goldman\'s book takes a wide view of what the genre comprises ... There\'s a thread of messiness that runs throughout She-Punks: songs that could easily slip from one of the book\'s chapter-defining themes to another; thoughts on race and LGBTQ identity that deserve to be more thoroughly developed. But attempting to encompass the entirety of this broad view of punk — and the diversity of women\'s lives — in one volume is an ambitious mission. And for it to succeed, that messiness is inevitable; it only further underscores Goldman\'s central argument that women\'s contributions to punk are too important and varied to fit neatly into a clichéd article or two about \'women who rock\'; that womanhood is too complex and rich to be so easily categorized
