Probably the best place to start if you are interested in women in music is the International Alliance of Women in Music, IAWM. The organization specializes in music by women composers, and has members who are composers, performers and historians. Their web site is: http://www.iawm.org. There are many more organizations, so please, continue...
JAZZ GRRLS http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/2124/jazzgrrl.htm. Includes a ton of links to individual women in jazz websites -- you can fill in a form and have your own site listed. Also other links and an electronic discussion group.
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, has a great web site devoted to women in the visual arts. Here's the URL: http://www.nmwa.org/index.htm.
The Women Artists Archive is housed at Sonoma State, and features over one thousand women artists from the Medieval period through twentieth century. The archive has black and white slides, art history books, artist biographies, and art journals. Plus, there is a whole section of feminst art. There is much more information at their web site: http://www.sonoma.edu/Library/special/waa/.
Women Composers: Internet Resources, http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7282/women.html.
The Lillith Gallery has lots of link to visual, music, essays and much more. Check out http://www.lilithgallery.com/
Check out Bay Area Women in Creative Music http://www.mills.edu/SHOWCASE/F97/MUS16/mus16.homepage.html.
and the Hudson Valley Women in Creative Music on http://www.deeplistening.org/
There is also a great article, soon to be a series, that can be found at: "Composing the Music School: Proposals for a Feminist Composition Curriculum" by Susan Parenti, which appeared in Volume 34, No. 1 (Winter 1996) ) of Perspectives of New Music and is on line inside the Perspectives of New Music web site at http://weber.u.washington.edu/~pnm/parenti.htm
The Arts Academy links up all kinds of artists, media, and styles. If you join, you can even add you artwork. http://www.artacademy.co.uk/frames.htm
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Kristine H. Burns,
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