"Teenybopper" Music and Girls' Fandom

I've been looking for an online source for this essay since I read snippets of it in a piece J. Jack Halberstam wrote for a book called Queer Youth Cultures. It's in the full, though I haven't fully "vetted" it yet.

Girls' fandom is an unexplored topic in music criticism. It's either ignore entirely or dismissed outright as silly and superfluous. One big issue I have is that there is little room for girls to be "nerds" about music. There's been a collaborated effort in recognizing women's and girls' participation in gamer culture, but not in other fandoms. Maybe because music fandom, unlike gaming or role-playing, which will always have a fringe element to it, is just too mainstream to be considered part of fandom.

There is a good, albeit somewhat dated, book called Pretty in Punk, about girls' participation in the subculture of punk that addresses some of this, but like the spate of riot grrrl books published in the last few years, it's primarily heteronormative in scope, and talks a lot about girls' relationships to boys in the punk scene. While that's a valid approach, what's missing is just talk about girls as fans without boys. I think Girls to The Front tried to do that, albeit in the limited and insular world of riot grrrl.