ABSTRACT
The interests of a music industry headquartered in the South continued to have a major impact on the careers of British pop women of the 60s. On the contrary: gender was the fault-line that separated male bands from women artists in the enterprise of establishing a modern identity for British pop music. In so far as British pop women had a distinctive look it was arguably in the traditional mode of feminine glamor. As a social phenomenon, the women singers of the British Invasion reflect a larger economic trend, the consolidation of British pop music within a consumer society. British women singers were part of this popular, but media constructed, challenge to dominant notions of Englishness centered on self-restraint, as well as even more antique images of passive, self-sacrificing womanhood. The result of Gerry's choice to opt out of pop was his musical "feminization": in most respects, his subsequent career ran parallel to women singers of the British Invasion.
