Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-277) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Affirming femininity: women singing, women enabling -- 3. From affirmation to interruption: women playing instruments -- 4. Threatening femininity: women composing/improvising -- 5. Towards a model of gendered musical meaning and experience -- 6. Affirming femininity in the music classroom -- 7. From affirmation to interruption of femininity in the music classroom -- 8. Threatening femininity in the music classroom -- 9. The music curriculum and the possibilities for intervention.