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Feeling Free and Female Sexuality: The Aesthetics of Joni Mitchell

This paper explores the role of early Joni Mitchell songs in mapping, from a woman's perspective, the sexual terrain of the mid-1960s, the period of time during which premarital sex lost its taboo status and became a normative part of female maturation and development. It argues that such songs, because of their strong storytelling component, put into popular circulation narratives of sexual freedom that engaged with emerging social practices and thereby helped to legitimize the new choices available to young women.