Out of roiling French feminist theory in the 1970s, philosopher and writer H l ne Cixous developed the practice of lecture feminine - based on the notion of criture f minine - as an analytic approach in her own seminars. In musicology, it wasn't until the 1990s that gender studies introduced new attitudes as methods. Might Cixous' lecture f minine serve as a historically rooted analytic approach for musicology and multimedia today? A theory of otherness that brings the body into play with the intellect, that questions the validity of the text, that poetically encourages a collective and respectful approach to reading with an abundance of interpretations: All of these notions and more are included in lecture f minine. The first extensive attempt to adapt lecture f minine to music analysis, the current volume offers experts and students in the areas of music, musicology, gender studies, and philosophy a concise introduction to this 'method'. Terms such as feminine, the other, and phallogocentrism are discussed in relationship to poststructuralism, Lacan, Freud, and other thought.
