Women's music

Women's music is a type of music based on the ideas of feminist separatism and lesbian separatism, designed to inspire feminist consciousness chiefly in Western popular music, to promote music "by women, for women, and about women." Women's music initially focused on topics of feminism that exposed the unfair treatment of women by society and their families, which was ignored by men. Its lyrics focused on women's individual power and women's solidarity. Later, it became lesbians' music. As an offshoot of the feminist movement, the genre was referred to as a musical expression of the second-wave feminist movement and included the women's labor, civil rights, and peace movements.