CONTENTS
Acknowledgements = ⅸ
Introduction = 1
1 Wonderful world, beautiful people : The 1960s' counter culture and its ideological relationship to women = 22
2 Repressive representations : Patriarchy, Femininities and 1960s' rock = 32
3 The personal is political : Women's liberation, sexuality, gender, freedom and repression = 44
4 Try, just a little bit harder : Janis Joplin and the search for personal identity = 51
5 The times they are achangin' : Folk and the singer songwriter = 72
6 The lonely road : Joni Mitchell, Blue and female subjectivity = 78
7 Daughrers of chaos : Patti Smith, Siouxsie Sioux and the feminisation of rock = 95
8 Challenging the feminine : Annie Lennox, androgyneity and illusions of identity = 119
9 Madonna, eroticism, autoeroticism and desire = 136
10 k.d. lang, a certain kind of woman = 152
11 Talkin' 'bour a revolution : Tracy Chapman, political uprisings, domestic violence and love = 171
12 Authenticity, truthfulness and community : Tori Amos, Courtney Love, P.J. Harvey and Bj o ·· rk = 196
13 Artifice and the imperatives of commercial success : From Brit Pop to the Spice Girls = 214
Discography = 230
Index = 236
