Women and music in Greece and Rome / Ann N. Michelini -- Women in music to ca. 1450 / J. Michele Edwards -- Women in music, ca. 1450-1600 / Karin Pendle -- Musical women of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Barbara Garvey Jackson -- European composers and musicians, ca. 1800-1890 / Nancy B. Reich -- European composers and musicians, 1880-1918 / Marcia J. Citron -- Women in American music, 1800-1918 / Adrienne Fried Block, assisted by Nancy Stewart -- Contemporary British composers / Catherine Roma -- Composers of modern Europe, Australia, and New Zealand / Robert Zierolf -- North America since 1920 / J. Michele Edwards, with contributions by Leslie Lassetter.

American popular music / S. Kay Hoke -- African-American women in blues and jazz / Michael J. Budds -- Women's support and encouragement of music and musicians / Linda Whitesitt -- Women in non-Western music / L. JaFran Jones -- Recovering Jouissance : an introduction to feminist musical aesthetics / Renée Cox.