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Book Synopsis
A powerful and hilarious collection of women's songs from the last five centuries, supplemented with sheet music.

Trade Review
'An excellent read' -- The Guardian

Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Love, Courtship and Desire
1. I Long to Have a Man
2. The Unfortunate Lass
3. The Thing is My Own
Part II: Marriage
4. Take Your Partners...
5. We've Been Together Now for Forty Years
6. Nothing Between Us Now
Part III: Motherhood and Childhood
7. We Must Choose
8. When Suzy Was a Baby
Part IV: Work - the Waged and the Unwaged
9. A Woman's Work...
10. The Boss's Darling?
11. Keep That Trouble Stirring
Index of Song Titles
Index of First Lines
Select Bibliography
Select Discography
Sources and Acknowledgments

My Song Is My Own 100 Womens Songs

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    A Paperback / softback by Kathy Henderson, Frankie Armstrong, Sandra Kerr

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      Book details

      Publisher Pluto Press
      Published 1 January 1987
      ISBN-13 9780861040322
      978-0861040322
      ISBN-10 0861040325
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      Entertainment Other performing arts Feminism and feminist theory

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A powerful and hilarious collection of women's songs from the last five centuries, supplemented with sheet music.

      Trade Review
      'An excellent read' -- The Guardian

      Table of Contents
      Introduction
      Part I: Love, Courtship and Desire
      1. I Long to Have a Man
      2. The Unfortunate Lass
      3. The Thing is My Own
      Part II: Marriage
      4. Take Your Partners...
      5. We've Been Together Now for Forty Years
      6. Nothing Between Us Now
      Part III: Motherhood and Childhood
      7. We Must Choose
      8. When Suzy Was a Baby
      Part IV: Work - the Waged and the Unwaged
      9. A Woman's Work...
      10. The Boss's Darling?
      11. Keep That Trouble Stirring
      Index of Song Titles
      Index of First Lines
      Select Bibliography
      Select Discography
      Sources and Acknowledgments

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