Article: Feminist theory, music theory, and the mind/body problem. (Towards A Feminist Music Theory)

One of the first intellectual rituals a person encounters on becoming a feminist is the ritual of self-identification. It is understood now - as it was not twenty years ago - that each of us speaks for sure only for herself, each of us from a unique situation born of multiple identities layered each on the other-class, race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religious beliefs, and so forth. Further, it is understood that each of us speaks from a situation that is partly defined by our listeners or readers: every communication is the acting out of a relationship, in which our identity of the moment is partly determined by the relationship we have or seek to have with others. As ...

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