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Contents Acknowledgments ix Note on Transliteration and Translation xiii Introduction 1 1 Women, Labor, and Performance in Homer 21 2 Gender, Genre, and Women’s Work in the Odyssey 52 3 Work and Performance in Captivity 78 4 Fragments of Songs, Moments at Work 106 5 Finding Work Songs, Dances, and Ritual Acts 133 6 From Lullabies to Children’s Songs: Some Diachronic Perspectives 160 7 No More Weaving: The Poetics of Interruption 182 8 The Tradition of Harvesting Songs 201 Epilogue 219 Notes 223 Bibliography 255 Index 291 This page intentionally left blank ...