ABSTRACT
This chapter specifically adds one important contextual framework—intersectionality—which considers how women who aren't straight and white might be silenced, shamed, erased, or otherwise marginalized due to the interaction between their gender and their other identities. It also addresses two significant industry issues that have received considerable media attention since the first edition was written: cultural appropriation, and sexual harassment and gender-based violence in the industry. Intersectionality encourages us to move beyond liberal feminism, which sometimes myopically adopts and projects a monolithic view of womanhood. Cultural appropriation, which has become a common allegation in the music industry in recent years, generally occurs when a member of a straight, white, dominant group adopts an element of another group's culture for his/her/their commercial gain or opportunistic or insincere repositioning. Although it is certainly no secret that sexual harassment has persisted for decades in the industry, social media has facilitated discussions among large groups of women that rarely happened in past decades.
