A musical woman in a man's world : Rebecca Clarke. [Review of A Rebecca Clarke Reader by Liane Curtis (ed) (2005).]

In the last decades of the twentieth century, an explosion of information became available on women's music through the concentrated research effort of a thriving scholarly community loosely affiliated with the feminist arm of musicology. By the turn of the twenty-first century, however, despite the optimistic anticipation of a bright future by Susam <cClary who, in 1993, wrote that 'it is anyone's guess what will have transpired by he year 2000', scholarship focused on women's art music has virtually disappeared from the musicological radar screen in tghe northern hemisphere, a situation which is evident in other parts of the globe, including Australia.