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  • For love and glory, by way of a preface
  • Introduction
  • Historical overview
  • The sympathetic magic of genre : hybrids, creoles, mongrels, and contagions
  • Laundry : cyclical mythic structure in women's epic
  • Laundry, myth, and modernity
  • Psyche : internalized mythic structure in women's epic
  • Oral culture and women's performance
  • Making it up out of whole cloth : textual textiles and textilist readings of epic
  • Invisible child : anonymous was a woman and other stories
  • Tomboy epic : epics of girlhood
  • Fathers' daughters : against the fathers' amnesia
  • My mother, myself : symbiotic recursions in women's epic
  • Exits and entrances : monumental time in womans' epic
  • Ironing things out : cyclical timing in women's epic
  • My woman-naming roar : feminist discourse and women's epic
  • Divine machinery : the gods and religious thought in women's epic
  • It gets hard core : materialist girls
  • Mowing the lawn : democratic, inclusive goals in women's epic
  • Small dynasties : the local, familial, and global in women's epic
  • The heroic text : poetry as heroic action.