The contributors look at how women composed, assuming that compositional gender strategies may have been used differently when applied through her vision: how women were composed, or represented and interpreted through music in a larger cultural context, and how her presence in that dialog situated her in social space. They describe trace how women found music as a means for communicating, establishing intellectual power, generating musical tastes and for enhancing the quality of their lives: the impact of women who performed publicly on their lives and families: and how some women made their own money with music.