Social Science Feminism & Feminist Theory
Women and the Gift Economy
A Radically Different Worldview is Possible
- Publisher
- Inanna Publications
- Initial publish date
- May 2007
- Category
- Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women's Studies
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781926708461
- Publish Date
- May 2007
- List Price
- $12.99
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Description
Women and the Gift Economy: A Radically Different Worldview is Possible is an attempt to respond to the need for deep and lasting social change in an epoch of dangerous crisis for all humans, cultures, and the planet. Featuring articles by well-known feminist activists and academics from around the world, this book points to ways to re-create the connections, which have been severed, between the gift economy, women, and the economies of Indigenous peoples, and to bring forward the gift paradigm as an approach to liberate us from the worldview of the market that is destroying life on the planet. Contributors to this volume argue that shifting to a gift paradigm can give us the radically different worldview which will make another, better, world possible.
About the author
Genevieve Vaughan is the author of For-Giving: A Feminist Criticism of Exchange, and the originator of a perspective which advocates gift giving as an alternative economy and culture based on women.