This page is a short reference to books, articles, and CDs about studies in feminism, gender, and sexuality in music. If you have no previous background in the study of gender in music then this is the perfect place to start. If you would like a more extensive bibliography I would suggest looking at the gender and music bibliography at Western Michigan University: http://www.wmich.edu/mus-theo/BIB.html

• Blackmer, Corinne E. and Patricia Julianna Smith, ed. En Travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

• Brett, Phillip, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary. C. Thomas, ed. Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology. New York: Routledge, 1994.

• Citron, Marcia J. Gender and the Musical Canon. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

• Clement, Catherine. Opera or the Undoing of Women. Translated by Betsy Wing. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988.

• Cook, Susan C. and Judy S. Tsou. Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

• Cusick, Suzanne G., Marion A. Guck, Marianne Kielian-Gilbert, Susan McClary, Eric Gans. "Toward a Feminist Music Theory" A set of essays in Perspectives of New Music, Vol.32, no.1, (Winter 1994): 6-88.

• Fuller, Sophie. The Pandora Guide to Woman Composers: Britain and the United States, 1629-Present. San Franscisco: Pandora, 1994.

• Gill, John. Queer Noises: Male and Female Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Music. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.

• Jezic, Dianne Peacock. Women Composers: The Lost Tradition Found. Second Edition prepared by Elizabeth Wood. New York: The Feminist Press, 1994.

• Koskoff, Ellen, ed. Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

• Leppert, Richard and Susan McClary, ed. Music and Society: The Politics of Compositions, Performance and Reception. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1987.

• McClary, Susan. Feminine Endings. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.

• McClary, Susan. "Reshapind a Discipline: Musicology and Feminism in the 1990's." Feminist Studies. 19, no.2 (summer 1993): 399-423. ((I highly recommend this paper especially to anyone in Women's Studies who is not that familiar with music theory.))

• McClary, Susan. "Towards a Feminist Criticism of Music". Canadian University Music Review. No. 10/2, (1990): 9-18.

• Neul-Bates, Carol. Women in Music: An Anthology of Source Readings from the Middle Ages to the Present. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1982.

• Solie, Ruth, ed. Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship. Los Angeles and Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. ((I also recommend this book for a well rounded look at all types of gender issues in music.))
  CD's

• The Women's Philharmonic. Conducted by Jo Ann Falletta. Fanny Mendelssohn, Overture. Clara Schumann, Piano Concerto, Op.7. Germaine Tailleferre, Concertino for Harp and Orchestra. Lili Boulanger, Un Soir Triste and D'un Matin de Printemps. KOCH 3-7169-2 H1

• Walker-Hill, Helen. Kaleidoscope: Music by African-American Women. Leonarda 339, 1995.