Feminine Endings : Music, Gender, and Sexuality

Acknowledgments vii Feminine Endings in Retrospect ix Introduction: A Material Girl in Bluebeard's Castle 3(32) Constructions of Gender in Monteverdi's Dramatic Music 35(18) Sexual Politics in Classical Music 53(27) Excess and Frame: The Musical Representation of Madwomen 80(32) Getting Down Off the Beanstalk: The Presence of a Woman's Voice in Janika Vandervelde's Genesis II 112(20) This Is Not a Story My People Tell: Musical Time and Space According to Laurie Anderson 132(16) Living to Tell: Madonna's Resurrection of the Fleshly 148(21) Notes 169(44) Index 213