IT HAS BECOME MY PERSONAL ANTHEM: 'I Am Woman', Popular Culture and 1970s Feminism

Today, Helen Reddy's song "I Am Woman" is widely, evenly routinely, described as a feminist anthem. Constructs a cultural history of the song to explore how popular culture produced and translated feminism for mass audiences. Examines as far as evidence allows the role the song played in feminist activism. An analysis of memories of the song helps us work towards understanding the ways in which feminism was understood by women, many of whom were not part of the organized Women's Liberation Movement. The song was a potent, widely accessible feminist text that reached many other women. (Quotes from original text)