Subject Headings

Actresses
Feminism and Music
Women Composers
Women in the performing arts
Women in the theater
Women Musicians

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Vagina Monologues
Women performers
Women "performing arts"

Books

The following sources provide basic information and brief introductions to the topic of women in the performing arts. Call numbers and locations are listed below the book's description. Refer to the Ask-A-Librarian, IRIS Guide and Building Map pages for more information.

For additional books about women in music, try browsing the ML82 call numbers at the Blanche and Irving Laurie Music Library (located inside of the Douglass Library). Contact Music Librarian Tom Izbicki at tizbicki@rci.rutgers.edu for more information. Douglass Library's Music/Media Laboratory (located across the hall from the Music Library) contains performance CDs and DVDs. Contact Jan Reinhart (jreinhar@rci.rutgers.edu) or John Rake (johnrake@rci.rutgers.edu) for more information.

Ammer, Christine. Unsung: A History of Women in American Music.
Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 2001.
DOUGLASS MUSIC, ML82.A45 2001

Gale, Maggie B. and Stokes, John, eds. Cambridge companion to the actress.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
DANA, DOUGLASS STACKS PN2071.S63C34 2007

Lengel, Laura and Warren, John T., eds. Casting gender: Women and performance in intercultural contexts.
New York: Peter Lang, 2005.
DANA, DOUGLASS STACKS HQ1161.C37 2005

Levitin, Jacqueline; Plessis, Judith and Valerie Raoul, eds. Women filmmakers: Refocusing.
Vancouver : UBC Press, 2002.
DOUGLASS STACKS PN1995.9.W6W655 2002

McClary, Susan. Feminine Endings: Music, Gender and Sexuality.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
DOUGLASS MUSIC ML82.M38 2002

Monem, Nadine, ed. Riot grrrl: revolution girl style now!
London: Black Dog Pub., 2007
DOUGLASS STACKS ML3534.3.R56 2007

Tindall, Blair. Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005.
DOUGLASS MUSIC ML419.T48A3 2005
In this book, Tindall writes candidly about her experience as an Oboe player in American symphony orchestras.

Sloan, Jane. Reel Women: An international directory of contemporary feature films about women.
Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2007.
MUSIC REF PN1995.9.W6S63 2007
Jane Sloan is Rutgers' Media Librarian. Her office is in the Kilmer Library's Media Center.

Journals

The journals below may contain relevant articles on your chosen topic. To locate the online versions of these journals, search for the title in IRIS and select "Periodical title begins with" from the dropdown menu. The results page will include a link to the electronic version, or will provide call numbers for print copies.

Camera Obscura [Rutgers Restricted, Online Resource]

Women & Music : A journal of gender and culture [Rutgers Restricted, Online Resource]

Women & Performance
DOUGLASS PER -- Shelved by title; Current issues available

Indexes

Journal articles from a variety of periodical sources can be found via these specialized and multidisciplinary indexes. Students can use their Net ID and password to log into Rutgers Restricted databases from off-campus. See the "How Do I Connect From Home?" guide for more information.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index - Web of Science
Includes citations and references from articles in more than 8,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to articles, other document types indexed are letters, corrections, additions, editorials, and reviews. It provides complete bibliographic data, searchable author abstracts, and cited references.

FIAF International FilmArchive Database
FIAF International FilmArchive database is an international compendium of information on film and television maintained by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF).

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Compiled by the International RILM Center, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is the world's largest, continuously updated bibliography of music literature, providing broad international coverage including records in 140 languages from 3,700 journals.

Websites

Contemporary Women Playwrights (Rutgers Libraries)

Cover Zone: Celebrating the Women of Rock

Feminist Film Theory

Michigan Womyn's Music Festival

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Nicole Fleetwood (Rutgers)
"[Rutgers] Professor Fleetwood has published essays on hip-hop fashion and masculine anxiety; black documentary filmmakers; and community-based media practices."

Riot Grrrl: Revolution Girl Style Now! (Facebook Page) (MySpace Page)
DOUGLASS IN-PROCESS
"Riot Grrrl is a vivid documentation of the fierce music, renegade art and independent literature that emerged from suburban America in the late 1980s and became a global phenomenon."

Rutgers Film Co-op

Women Make Movies (Facebook Page) (YouTube Page)

Women Song Composers (University of California at Davis)