Women have been important players in the recording industry from the very beginning, but not until 1996 did they out-sell their male competitors on the pop album charts and pull ahead in the race for hits.Good Girls, Bad Girls provides a 100-year history of women in music, beginning with Lil Hardin Armstrong and Billie Holliday, and continuing up to present-day artists such as Shakira, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, and Miley Cyrus.The author presents an analysis of the rise of women in music--and their subsequent fall--based on author interviews with a diverse assortment of women, ranging from Shania Twain, Pat Benatar, Brenda Lee, Bonnie Raitt, Tiffany, Ann and Nancy Wilson, Melissa Etheridge, Tammy Wynette, June Carter Cash, and Tanya Tucker. Influential women pioneers such as the late Frances Preston of BMI and Stax Records co-founder Estelle Axton were also interviewed by the author.