I get the impression that quite often attitudes are attributed to women when in fact (or so I suspect) the songs themselves were made up by men and represent what men think (or wish) that women feel. 'Home, Dearie, Home' may be an example of this, or 'The Shearin's No For You', 'Fanny Blair', or the many songs where young girls are eager to get laid by the next best stranger coming their way. Unless women have changed fundamentally in the last hundred years it just doesn't ring true in many instances.