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What Is Loretta Lynn's Feminist Attitude?
Carl Safina: Let's go back to the 60s and maybe pick one of the early songs that showed her emergence, you know something a little less familiar. Don't come home and drink in with love and on your mind which is really an indicator of both her sense of humor and that kind of battle of the sexist theme. She wrote about troubled marriages from the point of view of the put upon And she wrote about female rivals right in Songs like Fist City or You're Not Woman Enough to Take My Man but also humorously so. He says there's a lot going on with Loretta Lynn's attitude toward being a woman in the world as we move into 21st century feminism.
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