Edited by iconic musician Kim Gordon and esteemed writer Sinead Gleeson this powerful collection of awardwinning female creators shares their writing about the female artists that matter most to them. This book is for and about the women who kicked in doors as pioneers of their craft or making politics central to their sound those who offer a new way of thinking about the vast spectrum of women in music.This Womans Work Essays on Music is edited by iconic musician Kim Gordon and esteemed writer Sinead Gleeson and features an array of talented contributors including Anne Enright Fatima Bhutto Jenn Pelly Rachel Kushner Juliana Huxtable Leslie Jamison Liz Pelly Maggie Nelson Margo Jefferson Megan Jasper Ottessa Moshfegh Simone White Yiyun Li and Zakia Sewell.In this radical departure from the historic narrative of music and music writing being written by men for men This Womans Work challenges the male dominance and sexism that have been hardcoded in the canons of music literature and film and has forced women to fight pigeonholing or being sidelined by carving out their own space. Women have to speak up to shout louder to tell their story like the auteurs and groundbreakers featured in this collection including Anne Enright on Laurie Anderson Megan Jasper on her groundbreaking work with Sub Pop Margo Jefferson on Bud Powell and Ella Fitzgerald and Fatima Bhutto on music and dictatorship.This Womans Work also features writing on the experimentalists women who blended music and activism the genrebreakers the vocal auteurs stories of lost homelands and friends of propaganda and dictatorships the women of folk and country the racialized tropes of jazz the music of Trap and Carriacou of mixtapes and violin lessons.