Marisa Meltzer, Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music (2010)

Learn about the 1990s legacy of girl-driven music scenes that inspired both Beyoncé and "If I Were a Boy" songwriter BC Jean.
Sheila Watley, Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender (1997)

This book includes a whole chapter on the emergence of grrrl power in the early 1990s.