Where are all the angry women in other musical genres?

Cazz Blaze wrote a great post for the F-Word about the perceived lack of "angry young women" in genres other than rock or punk. She says:

[...] there is the basic assumption that angry women only exist, music wise, in the area of rock music - we presumably don't have angry pop stars because there is a credibility issue that goes with being mainstream and angry (ie people would assume you aren't really meaning it, see Alanis Morrisette as a case in point) but also people don't talk of angry dance music, angry urban music, angry folk music... Why is that? Why must anger be equated with an electric guitar?

As much as riot grrrl brought feminism and the inequality of being a woman in society to the forefront, this is one of my biggest pet peeves, too: its claim to the anger and righteousness that comes with that awareness, almost exclusive to other styles of music. Riot grrrl suffered from its own internalized misogyny, pitting pop against punk -- good girl (quite, complacent, well-behaved) against bad girl (outspoken, polemic.)

 

One of my favorite "angry woman" songs of the last half-decade or so is Martha Wainwright's "Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole." Along with the examples provided in the original post, there are quite a few angry folk (or folk-rock) songs penned by women. Hip-Hop has produced its share of stealthily feminist righteous anger also: