How Women Reclaimed Country Music
The story of modern country music told through the women whose success, reach and ambition reshaped the genre.

'The book is deeply researched.[a] history of the kind of industry - and world - that the white men of country music have always hoped to maintain and the women who wouldn't let them.' Pitchfork

For the women of country music, 1999 was an entirely different universe than today: a brief blip in time when women like Shania Twain and the Chicks topped every chart and made country music a woman's world. But the industry, which prefers its stars to be neutral and be obedient, had other plans.

Women are played on country radio as little as 10 per cent of the time, but they're selling out arenas and becoming infinitely bigger live draws than many of their male counterparts, creating massive pop crossover hits like Beyonce's groundbreaking Cowboy Carter; an album that pushed the industry to confront its racial biases and swept the 2025 Grammy's.

In Her Country, award-winning journalist Marissa R. Moss tells the story of how in the past two decades, country's women fought back. It's the behind-the-scenes story of how women like Kacey Musgraves, Miranda Lambert, Rissi Palmer, Brandi Carlile and many more have reinvented their place in an industry stacked against them. When the rules stopped working for these women, they took control, changing the genre forever, and for the better.