For-Giving A Feminist Criticism of Exchange

Vaughan, Genevieve

ISBN 10: 0911051945 / ISBN 13: 9780911051940

Published by Plain View Press, Austin TX, 1997

About this Item

Stimulating and provocative look at language and economics. Vaughan identifies gift-giving, arising from women's nurturing, as the basis for language and culture. Inscribed by author on title page, 432 pages, bottom corner lightly bumped.; 6 x 9 "; Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 34447

Bibliographic Details

• Title: For-Giving A Feminist Criticism of Exchange
• Publisher: Plain View Press, Austin TX
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0911051945
• ISBN 13: 9780911051940
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Social Sciences

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Synopsis

For-Giving, a Feminist Criticism of Exchange, first published in 1997 is an analysis of the values of gift giving seen as an economic mode of distribution based in maternal practice, and opposed to the self-reflecting and ego-oriented values of exchange on which the market economy is based. The values of Patriarchy entwine with those of Capitalism to create an economic system of domination, while a maternal economy would provide for everyone and promote a community-oriented subjectivity which would also honor Mother Nature. This book gives a woman based perspective on the gift economy as a basis for social change.

About the Author

Genevieve Vaughan is an independent researcher who was born in Texas, USA and presently lives in Italy. She has been working on the theory of a maternal gift economy as an alternative to Patriarchal Capitalism for many years. Vaughan's book For-Giving, a Feminist Criticism of Exchange, (Plain View Press 1997- now Anomaly Press) and two edited books Athanor:The Gift/ Il Dono: A Feminist Analysis (Meltemi Editore 2004), and Women and the Gift Economy: A Radically Different Worldview is Possible (Inanna Press 2007), her e book, Homo Donans (2007), two children's books Mother Nature's Children (Anomaly Press 2001) and Free/Not Free (Anomaly Press 2007) her cd Songs for the Tree of Life, a film on her life: Giving for Giving which will soon be aired on Free Speech TV and her many articles are all available free at her website.

A description of the Foundation for a Compassionate Society, an all-women activist foundation for social change which Genevieve founded and directed from 1987-1998 can also be found on the website as well as the audio recordings of the presentations of many international women from the conferences the foundation organized A Radically Different Worldview is Possible: The Gift Economy Inside and Outside Patriarchal Capitalism (2004) and Societies of Peace: the 2nd World Congress of Matriarchal Studies (2005) under the direction of Heide Goettner-Abendroth.

In 1992 Genevieve created a temple to the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet near the nuclear test site in the Nevada desert. The temple is still in existence and open to visitors. Genevieve has participated in a number of international women's conferences as well as many of the World Social Forums. She speaks on the gift economy in a wde variety of venues both individually and together with members of the network of which she was a main instigator, International Feminists for a Gift Economy.