This chapter, written by Charlotte Greig, discusses how women songwriters assimilate female issues into their songs. But Greig suggests that there are few experiences that are solely a woman’s. She states that the popularized topic of romantic love, even though there are women songwriters that have greatly contributed to the female insight of this subject, is not exclusive to the female gender. The experiences that Greig point out that are unique to women are childbirth, motherhood, and pregnancy. But when thinking of these topics the genre of pop music does not come to mind. Greig proposes that the reasoning behind this dilemma is due to the female character in said pop songs are in “limbo” since they neither get married, have children, or
