Society for Music Theory

Committee on the Status of Women

Bibliography of Sources Related to Women's Studies,
Gender Studies, Feminism, and Music



Status Issues


American Association of University Women. "Shortchanging Girls, Shortchanging America." 1991.

Block, Adrienne. "The Staus of Women in College Music, 1986-1987." In Women's Studies/Women's Status, CMS Report Number 5, Nancy B. Reich, Chair, CMS Committee on the Status of Women in Music. Boulder, CO: The College Music Society, 1988.

Glickman, Sylvia. "Women's Performance in Music Competitions 1967-1988." The Musical Woman: An Interdisciplinary Perspective 3 (1986-1990), 293-320.

Hetzel, Lori R. and Kay Norton. "Women Choral Conductors at the Collegiate Level: Status and Perspectives." College Music Symposium 33/34 (1993/1994), 23-40.

Jezer, Rhea. "Women in Music Academia: A Statistical and Humanistic Analysis." In Gender, Culture, and the Arts: Women, the Arts, and Society, ed. Ronald Dotterer and Susan Bowers. Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press; London; Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1993.

LeFanu, Nicola. "Master Musician: An Impregnable Taboo?" Contact 31 (Autumn 1987): 4-8.

Maris, Barbara English. "A Preliminary Checklist of Selected Films and Videos Featuring Women in Music." In Women's Studies/Women's Status, CMS Report Number 5, Nancy B. Reich, Chair, CMS Committee on the Status of Women in Music. Boulder, CO: The College Music Society, 1988.

Neuls-Bates, Carol. "The Status of Women College Music: Preliminary Studies." College Music Society Report Number 1: Proceedings of the Meeting on Women in the Profession, Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the College Music Society, University of Iowa, Iowa City, February 15, 1975.

O'Neill, Susan A.; Boulton, Michael J. "Boys' and girls' preferences for musical instruments: A function of gender?" Psychology of music 24/2 (1996), 171-183.

Payne, Barbara. "The Gender Gap: Women on Music Faculties in American Colleges and Universities, 1993-1994." College Music Symposium 36 (1996), 91-102.

Renton, Barbara H. "The Status of Women in College Music, 1976-77: A Statistical Study." College Music Society Report Number 2, 1980.

Sandler, Patricia. "Aspects of Women's Life in the School of Music: Pedagogy, Sexualization, Identity." In Community of Music: An Ethnographic Seminar in Champaign-Urbana. Champaign, Il: Elephant & Cat, 1993: 149-158.

Zannino, Milli. "Creating a Musical Career: Reality and Illusion." The Musical Woman: An Interdisciplinary Perspective 3 (1986-1990), 321-336.

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