Women's music (or womyn's music, wimmin's music) is the music by women, for women, an about women (Garofalo 1992:242). The genre emerged as a musical expression of the second-wave feminist movement(Peraino 2001:693) as well as the labor, civil rights, and peace movements(Mosbacher 2002). The movement was started by lesbian separatists such as Cris Williamson, Meg Christian and Margie Adam, heterosexual feminists such as Bernice Johnson Reagon, the members of Sweet Honey in the Rock, and peace activist Holly Near (Mosbacher 2002) Women’s music also refers to the wider industry of women’s music that goes beyond the performing artists to include studio musicians, producers, sound engineers, technicians, cover artists, distributors, promoters, and festival organizers who are also women (Garofalo 1992:242).