Theory of the Gift Economy

Introduction to the Gift Economy

For-Giving: A Feminist Criticism of Exchange by Genevieve Vaughan

Articles and Essays by Genevieve Vaughan

• The Gift Economy
• Gift Giving and the Goddess: A Philosophy for Social Change
• Jacob Wrestles with the Angel
• My Journey with Sekhmet, Goddess of Power and Change
• Alma de Mujer, the Gift: Restoring Land to Indigenous People
• U.S. Feminist's Response to September 11: Calling for a Gift-Economy

• The Exemplar and the Gift
• Feminist Semiotics for Social Change: the Mother or the Market
• Gift Giving as the Female Principle vs Patriarchal Capitalism
• Language as Gift and Community
• Mothering, Co-muni-cation and the Gifts of Language
• The Gift Economy (for Women's Worlds 2002, Uganda)

• What can we do to create a peaceful revolution?
• Closing the Foundation for a Compassionate Society
• Autobiography
• The Nairobi Peace Tent

• Communication and Exchange
• Saussure and Vygotsky via Marx
• Gift-giving: The Feminine Principle of Communication

• Strategic Acts of Kindness: A Suggested Strategy for Women Funders to Create Social Change
• 36 Steps Toward a Gift Economy

• 36 Pasos hacia la Economía del Don
• El Ejemplar y el Don
• El Lenguaje como Don y Comunidad
• Das Schenken und die Gšttin, Eine Philosophie des sozialen Wandels
• Uma filosofia para a mudança social

Athanor: Il Dono, the gift, a feminist analysis

Introduction

1. Genevieve Vaughan: L'Economia del dono
2. Genevieve Vaughan: MS article, The Gift Economy
3. Genevieve Vaughan: Gift giving and exchange: Genders are economic identities and economies are based on gender
4. Kaarina Kailo: Giving Back to the Gift Paradigm: Another Worldview is Possible
5. Heide Goettner-Abendroth: Matriarchal society: definition and theory
6. Rauna Kuokkanen: The gift as a world view in indigenous thought
7. Eila Estola: Legitimacy of Nursing and Caring in Max Weber's Frame of Reference
8. Bhanumatu Natarajan: Biodiversity and traditional knowledge- Perspectives for a Gift economy
9. Hildur Ve: Gracias a la Vida
10. Mari Lahtinen: Legitimacy of Nursing and Caring in Max Weber's Frame of Reference
11. Mechthild Hart: Transnational Feminist Politics: Being at Home in the World, Globalization and the International Women's movement
12. Ana Isla: Dispossessing the commons by credit. The struggle to reclaim the commons
13. Paola Melchiori: Epistemologia del dono
14. Paola Melchiori: Insights on the gift and the insight of the gift
15. Susan Bright and Susan Lee: Restorative Reconciliation: Forgiveness and healing instead of cycles of retaliation
16. Rokeya Begum: On the feminism of the gift economy
17. Frieda Werden: The gifts of Sound
18. María Suárez: The gift economy in the Net
19. Linda Christiansen-Ruffman: The gift economy in Atlantic Canada: Personal reflections of a Feminist Sociologist
20. Lee Ann La Bar: The gifts of Stonehaven
21. Jutta Ried: The gift-economy in my life
22. Leslene Della Madre: The Gift of Giving
23. Norma Fernandez: The Cries of Silence
24. Susan Bright: poem The Gift

Presentations from the Gift Economy Conference

Practice of the Gift Economy

Foundation for a Compassionate Society

• Foundation Description

• Herstory Report

• Stonehaven Ranch

• 2nd Congress of Matriarchal Studies

• International Gift Economy Conference

• FIRE

• The Temple of Sekhmet

• Wings

• Giving For Giving

• Le Casa Dei Bambini, Kyle Montessori School

Conferences

2nd World Congress on Matriarchal Studies website.

Gift Economy Conference website

Feminist Family Values Forum

Email List

Books

CDs and Cassettes

Videos and DVDs