Well, there’s this bunch:
[sub]Um, well, I actually kind of like 'em …
Preview, Rik, preview!
Anyway, your daughter might be interested in this company:
It’s a company run by women, that specifically makes guitars to appeal to girls and encourage them to take up the instrument. From their FAQ:
Let me submit Joan Jett, Lita Ford, Bonnie Raitt, Melissa Etheridge, Ani DiFranco, Sheryl Crow, Tracy Chapman, Vixen, Dixie Chicks, and the Indigo Girls all are female. I second Kittie. Don’t forget Charo, she is a virtuoso and has been around a long time. There is a video section on that site with her playing.
Adding, you’ll probably want to preview the Charo videos, I didn’t watch them before posting. There are some not as spicey ones.
Mmm…
“Mingle with Lisa Loeb” contest… 
I saw that video of Jake S playing the uke a while back, but I never thought he was actually somebody famous. It blew me away then and it blows me away now. Fantastic arrangement.
All this talk of female guitarists and nobody has yet mentioned the all-female Sleater-Kinney, one of the best bands of the last ten years, and who rock harder than any other five male-led bands combined?
Here’s a clip from when they played on Letterman.
Not at all taken by that guy, but then again I thought the first guy/gal was brilliant (heck, I’d buy that arrangement if there was a CD…) so my judgment may be somewhat suspect.
Errrm, I don’t think most of the women posted by others here would be very insipiring to a youngster since they’re old enough to be her grandmother and play music I doubt she has any interest in.
I think Kaki King might be much more appealing, since she’s young and got a distinctive style. Here’s a youtube link:
Kaki King is brilliant. I saw her perform live a few months back, and was absolutely blown away. Plus she has an adorable stage presence- really funny and whimsical between songs, graceful and precise while playing. Can’t believe I forgot to mention her. 
I’m a little late in answering this, but the answer is you can, if you just tap hard enough. When you tap the string hard enough, it causes it to vibrate and produce noise. It’s obviously not nearly as loud as strumming so he most likely has his pickup/mic turned up on his guitar, but this is the basic idea behind tapping, something the guy in the first video does. It’s sort of like playing the piano in that you use both hands. Turn up your compression and distortion a bit and your hammer-ons and pull-offs will sound quite clearly. If you have a guitar nearby, just try tapping the strings with your fingertips firmly. You’ll hear it sound out.
Eddie Van Halen created that style of playing in rock. If you listen to anything from the first couple of Van Halen albums you will hear that technique all over the place.
I was not familiar with her before I saw this post. I saw that video and although she’s quite talented I have to say her technique is a gimmick. Does she play everything like that? This is also a highly produced video with lots of cuts.
The Great Kat is a killer player though her whole shtick is too edgy for me (wow, talk about gimmicks). I’ve put an extra click in because it plays music when you bring the site up, and some of the images are borderline.
Oh, I know you can get sound out of tapping, but it seemed like he was getting nearly as much volume from the tapping as he was from the strumming. Just seemed odd to me. Maybe he had someone sitting at a mixing console pulling the gain down whenever he started strumming.
You use a compressor/expander, which puts out a level amplitude regardless of the amplitude of the input signal. One example.
Is this the same Kaki King I saw tonight on the La Guitara tour? She had the stage presence of a newt.
And her guitar playing was nowhere near as good as on the youtube video. She sounded like the second-rate Preston Reed imitator she’s often tagged as.
But.
She played a few songs on lap steel with loops that were as terrific as anything I’ve ever heard in concert. It was like hearing a new type of music. She says she has a new album coming out this summer. If that music is on it, everybody in this thread ought to run out and buy copies for them and all their friends.
BTW, for the poster who wanted female guitarists: the La Guitara project and album is designed to feature female guitarists of every musical type. Unfortunately, the current year’s tour ended tonight, but will pick up with a variety of artists next year.
When I tap (which is not often, since I’m more of a bass player than a guitarist) I don’t just press the string straight down and lift my finger straight up. Rather, I press down and then make an ever-so-slight sideways motion as I release the string. In effect, I’m still “picking” the string, but with my fingertip rather than the pick. This creates nearly as much volume as my normal picking.
Sorry, Pachelbel’s Canon has been forever ruined for me through its use in Testament, the Jane Alexander directed film about a small town following WWIII. They play this music while the three surviving characters are having a birthday celebration eating perhaps the last bit of cake left in all of Northern California. The music brings back every depressing sequence in that film.
Hmm, sort of off-topic but along the lines of interesting music performances: in “A Cello Rondo,” Ethan Winer performs an instrumental consisting of 37 separate cello parts recorded on 23 tracks using 37 plug-in effects. I liked this music so much that I put the MP3 on my iPod.