In Kedah State, women performers can appear only before female audiences.

A personal goal is to one day share stages with these great women performers.

Does your paper have to write women performers out of our musical history, too?

But women performers were much more widely known in this period.

"They're almost all written for women performers," Mr. Furia pointed out.

Many of the women performers were probably prostitutes.

She has gathered around her other women performers who form a kind of understated family group.

"I'm trying to get something together with some women performers I know to go to this women's prison in Virginia," she said.

Not just men, but there were women performers in the circus act as well.