A Room Of One's Own: How Household's 'Items' Confronts The Limits Of Domesticity

Since publishing our original Turning the Tables list six months ago, we've grown the canon it established — one always meant to be open and adjustable — by publishing 39 essays on albums by women who either came before the time period the original list encompassed, or didn't make the original cut. The point of the Forebears and Shocking Omissions series was to show that a feminist canon is always flexible because its makers are aware of their own limitations and ready to hear others' points of view.

This process of remaking the original list could go on forever, and we hope it does, among listeners debating, celebrating, stumping for their musical loves. Meanwhile, Turning the Tables now enters a new stage with longer features about women creating and sharing albums: behind the soundboard at the recording studio, in the trenches touring and building community, and in the private spaces where an artist's