A Century of Composition by Women

Chapter 1 Introduction: Composing Women's (Very) Long 100-year Fight: Evolutions, Illuminations, Solutions, Linda Kouvaras.- Part I Creative Work-Then and Now.- Chapter 2 Synaesthetic Associations and Gendered Nature Imagery: Female Agency in the Piano Music of Amy Beach, Sabrina Clarke.- Chapter 3 "Australian Bush Songs" as Multimodal Discourse: The Remarkable Collaboration of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Annie Rentoul, and Georgette Peterson, Johanna Selleck.- Chapter 4 The 1940s Australian Ballet that "Far Outstripped ... 'Swan Lake' in Popular Appeal": Esther Rofe's Ground-Breaking Ballet, Sea Legend, Emma Townsend.- Chapter 5 Italians, Indians and Indigenous People: Innovative Themes and Materials Found in the Operas of Early-C20th Australian Women Composers, Jeanell Carrigan.- Chapter 6 "Conjuring Up the Magic": Helen Gifford's Compositional Passage to the Creation of Fable for Solo Harp, Jacinta Dennett.- Chapter 7 Of Broken Trees and Elephant Ivories: The Revivification of the Colonial Piano Manifested Through a New Work by Catherine Milliken, Gabriella Smart.- Chapter 8 Beyond Exploitation: Feminist Satire in Jennifer Walshe's XXX_LIVE_NUDE_GIRLS!!!, Jaslyn Robertson.- Chapter 9 Hildegard's Daughters: Women Composers "Overcoming Their Astonishment", Natalie Williams.- Chapter 10 Is the Category of the "Woman Artist" Still Helpful?, Susan Best.- Part II The State of the Industry in the Present Day.- Chapter 11 "Dear Women Composers in Australia (and Beyond):" (A Letter from a Music Critic), Rosalind Appleby.- Chapter 12 Programming Orchestral Repertoire by Women Composers: Challenges and Opportunity, Joanna Drimatis.- Chapter 13 Troubleshooting Gender in the Australian Screen Music Industry: An Insider Perspective, Felicity Wilcox.- Chapter 14 Programming with Gender Parity in

Dr Linda Kouvaras, musicologist, composer and pianist, is Professor of Music at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, with full artist APRA-AMCOS representation. Her research interests centre on gender issues in music and musical post/modernism (particularly Australian composition), and she is a piano examiner for the Australian Music Examinations Board.

Dr Maria Grenfell is a composer and academic living in Hobart, Tasmania. An Associate Professor at the University of Tasmania, she is widely commissioned by orchestras and chamber ensembles in Australia, New Zealand, and internationally, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. 

Dr Natalie Williams is a composer, academic and artistic manager. Her music has been commissioned and performed in Australia, the United States and Europe. A performing arts leader, she has worked as an academicdean and also held faculty positions in music theory and composition at the University of Georgia and the Australian National University.