Recovering jouissance: feminist aesthetics and music / Renée Cox Lorraine -- Women and music in ancient Greece and Rome / Ann N. Michelini -- Women in music to ca. 1450 / J. Michele Edwards -- Musical women in early modern Europe / 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, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand / Karin Pendle, Robert Zierolf -- North America since 1920 / J. Michele Edwards, with contributions by Leslie Lassetter -- American popular music / S. Kay Hoke -- Women in the world of music: three approaches: introduction / Robert Whitney Templeman -- Women and music around the Mediterranean / L. JaFran Jones -- Women in the world of music: Latin America, Native America, and the African diaspora / Robert Whitney Templeman -- American women in blues and jazz / Michael J. Budds -- Women's support and encouragement of music and musicians / Linda Whitesitt.