Sexual difference, texts and discourses -- Will you take me as I am? : subjectivity, autobiography and authorship -- Women in rock and other oxymorons -- The early period (1968-1970) -- The self-conscious period (1971-1974) -- The socially conscious period (1975-1977) -- A soprano has no credibility? : Joni Mitchell and the rock press -- The singer-songwriter and the making of the canon.