Can't quibble with the list (particularly since it doesn't purport to be THE top 10 female guitarists), but this little blurb in re: Bonnie Raitt betrays a lack of familiarity with music history that lends the whole article a lack of credibility:
The guitar may be an instrument is primarily associated with male machismo, and blues guitar was basically borne out of the objectification of women. (Emphasis supplied).
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[/size]A music journalist should have a little more familiarity with the history with the bedrock music upon which all modern American (and a hell of a lot of British) pop and rock music was erected. Hello? African diaspora? Slave songs? Black spiritual music? Whatever.
[font=verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif][/size]Alternatively, assuming the author DOES possess such familiarity, he does neither himself nor his readers a service by characterizing the blues (or blues guitar playing, to be precise about the author's characterization) as music that oppresses women, rather than as the voice of a people - male and female - who were categorically and systematically and violently oppressed.[/font]