Zines, Polyvocality, and Sound: How Modernist First-Wave Feminism Inspired Riot Grrrl

Abstract

This essay compares Virginia Woolf to Riot Grrrl's punk feminists, presenting the latter as leaders of an informed political and literary movement. It examines the way in which Woolf's writing was foundational in developing third-wave theory: Wilson views Woolf's work through a radical lens that emphasises the subversion of the novel and intersectional class consciousness.