{"id":763,"date":"2008-04-21T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=763"},"modified":"2008-04-21T06:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T11:59:00","slug":"musical-girls-gone-grandmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/04\/21\/musical-girls-gone-grandmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Girls Gone Grandmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SAx2KXrRtzI\/AAAAAAAABSU\/YD-opT5XkS8\/s1600-h\/girls-like-us-600.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SAx2KXrRtzI\/AAAAAAAABSU\/YD-opT5XkS8\/s200\/girls-like-us-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/17\/books\/17masl.html?ex=1366171200&amp;en=8ce7914465e25600&amp;ei=5124&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\">review this weekend by Janet Maslin<\/a> in the NYTimes of a book called <a><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and the Journey of a Generation<\/span><\/a> ,<br \/>by Sheila Weller.   Maslin calls it &#8220;a strong amalgam of nostalgia, feminist history, astute insight, beautiful music and irresistible gossip about the common factors in the three women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lives.&#8221;  Most interesting to me of course:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[I]t also has a point to make about sexual inequality in the era when these three women came of age. The ambition and posturing that turned middle-class Robert Zimmerman of Minnesota into Bob Dylan, Ms. Weller argues, were much more costly for women, no matter how freewheeling those women seemed. This book illustrates how Ms. Mitchell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s long-held secret about the baby she gave up for adoption was infinitely more punishing than the rambling, gambling male singer-songwriter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stock way of paying his dues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And most amusing:<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is something irritating about the very premise of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Girls Like Us,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sheila Weller\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s three-headed biography of legendary singer-songwriters. Maybe it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the instant-girlfriend tone of the title. Maybe it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that at least one of Ms. Weller\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s subjects, Joni Mitchell, objected to being lumped into the same book with the other two, Carole King and Carly Simon. Or maybe it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the euphemism. Her book is about women whose musical careers took off in the 1960s, and all are now in their 60s. They aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t girls. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re grandmas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>Go grandmas \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting review this weekend by Janet Maslin in the NYTimes of a book called Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and the Journey of a Generation ,by Sheila Weller. Maslin calls it &#8220;a strong amalgam of nostalgia, feminist history, astute insight, beautiful music and irresistible gossip about the common factors in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[400,21351],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-reviews","tag-feminist-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}