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"The idea of a free gift economy has become important in the movement for alternative economics, however the connection with women and especially with mothers has not been widely understood. The conference "The Maternal Roots of the Gift Economy," held in Rome in 2015, brought together women and men from around the world to discuss this important issue. In a moment when the values of Patriarchy and the market seem to have triumphed, the values of mothering and care are more sorely needed than ever. This book explores many aspects of the gift paradigm from a variety of points of view, taking into account theory and practice, activism and spirituality, as well as the experience of Indigenous societies North and South where maternal values are still at the centre for both women and men. Readers will find abundant evidence of ways of thinking and being that are possible beyond the Patriarchal Capitalism that is now threatening the existence of life on Mother Earth."--

Intro -- THE GIFT OF THE OTHER -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: The Gift of the Other -- A FEMINIST APPROACH TO LEVINAS -- A LEVINASIAN APPROACH TO FEMINISM -- BIRTH, TIME, ETHICS -- 1. The "Facts" of Life: Beauvoir's Account of Reproduction -- TAKE 1: B IRTH AS A PROJECT -- TAKE 2: B IRTH AS AN AMBIGUOUS SITUATION -- 2. The Body Politic: Arendt on Time, Natality, and Reproduction -- V ITA ACTIVA: LABOR, WORK, ACTION -- THE TEMPORALITY OF ACTION:PROMISE AND FORGIVENESS -- THINKING THROUGH NATALITY -- REPRODUCING NATALITY:CAVARERO'S READING OF ARENDT -- 3. Welcome the Stranger: Birth as the Gift of the Feminine Other -- DERRIDA AND THE G IF T OF THE IMPOSSIBLE -- CIXOUS AND THE GIFT OF THE FEMININE -- LEVINAS AND THE GIFT OF HOSPITALITY -- I AM WELCOMED: FROM ETHOS TO OIKOS -- YOU ARE WELCOME: FROM OIKOS TO ETHOS -- 4. Fathers and Daughters: Levinas, Irigaray,and the Transformation of Paternity -- PATERNITY AS INFINITE DISCONTINUITY -- OTHERWISE THAN PATERNITY:IRIGARAY READING LEVINAS -- FROM PATERNITY TO THE MATERNAL BODY:ISAIAH 49 -- 5. Ethics and the Maternal Body: Levinas and Kristeva Between the Generations -- TIME AND THE MATERNAL BODY -- ETHICS AND HERETHICS -- MOSES AND HIS MOTHERS: NUMBERS 11:12 -- 6. Maternal Ethics, Feminist Politics: The Question of Reproductive Choice -- DEFENDING THE IMAGINARY DOMAIN:DRUCILLA CORNELL -- LEVINAS BETWEEN ETHICS AND POLITICS -- ETHICS, POLITICS, AND THE PROSPECT OF "UNBORN MOTHERS" -- ALTERED MATERNITIES -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

"New York Times bestselling writer Julia Pierpont and up-and-coming artist Manjit Thapp tell vibrant, inspiring, and surprising stories of strength and progress by pairing short, lyrical biographies of secular "saints" with stunning full-color portraits. Some may be obvious: Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) wrote the first algorithm for a machine and is considered the first computer programmer. Some less so: Kanno Sugako (1881-1911) was an anarcho-feminist Japanese journalist who fought against gender oppression. Featuring a woman from 8th century BC and women fighting for social justice in 2017, women who lived in midtown Manhattan and a woman who lives in rural Uganda, this will be a book to offer as a gift to the girls and women in your life, but also one you'll want for yourself--because it's beautiful, because it's smart and edifying, and because it's a companion of sorts, a daily inspiration and delight"--

"The many powerful voices of the international contributors to this anthology argue that motherhood may be the foundation of alternative human logic, a new socio-political order, a new value system, and a way of liberating mothers themselves. This book does not present a utopia but a possible road to an alternative evolvement of the world different from the common thinking in the Global North: In lieu of capitalism—the gift economy and the subsistence economy; in lieu of trans-humanism—nature and all her human and non-human inhabitants; in lieu of individualism—community; in lieu of domination—balance and responsibility; in lieu of State—localism; in lieu of monotheism—spirituality; in lieu of equality feminism—transformative feminism. The signs of this development are already seen everywhere: in the New Age, in urban communes, in Occupy movement, in the mothers' movement. Based on critique of the failures of capitalism, the State, enlightment, patriarchy, and even western feminism, the book's second part presents alternatives coming from outside the patriarchal framework. For example: the maternal gift economy as an economic model and human logic; matriarchal society—balanced, free and equal; gift giving and subsistence perspective instead of exchange and accumulation; motherism as a central concept in African legacy; goddesses as spiritual and cultural icons. Such perception challenges the escape from the mother or mothering (to career, for example) that is so prevalent in the West. The possibilities to actualize this re-understanding of motherhood and mothering—including local communities, healing and peacemaking—are presented in the third part."--

"The many powerful voices of the international contributors to this anthology argue that motherhood may be the foundation of alternative human logic, a new socio-political order, a new value system, and a way of liberating mothers themselves. This book does not present a utopia but a possible road to an alternative evolvement of the world different from the common thinking in the Global North: In lieu of capitalism--the gift economy and the subsistence economy; in lieu of trans-humanism--nature and all her human and non-human inhabitants; in lieu of individualism--community; in lieu of domination--balance and responsibility; in lieu of State--localism; in lieu of monotheism--spirituality; in lieu of equality feminism--transformative feminism. The signs of this development are already seen everywhere: in the New Age, in urban communes, in Occupy movement, in the mothers' movement. Based on critique of the failures of capitalism, the State, enlightment, patriarchy, and even western feminism, the book's second part presents alternatives coming from outside the patriarchal framework. For example: the maternal gift economy as an economic model and human logic; matriarchal society--balanced, free and equal; gift giving and subsistence perspective instead of exchange and accumulation; motherism as a central concept in African legacy; goddesses as spiritual and cultural icons. Such perception challenges the escape from the mother or mothering (to career, for example) that is so prevalent in the West. The possibilities to actualize this re-understanding of motherhood and mothering--including local communities, healing and peacemaking--are presented in the third part."--

"The many powerful voices of the international contributors to this anthology argue that motherhood may be the foundation of alternative human logic, a new socio-political order, a new value system, and a way of liberating mothers themselves. This book does not present a utopia but a possible road to an alternative evolvement of the world different from the common thinking in the Global North: In lieu of capitalism--the gift economy and the subsistence economy; in lieu of trans-humanism--nature and all her human and non-human inhabitants; in lieu of individualism--community; in lieu of domination--balance and responsibility; in lieu of State--localism; in lieu of monotheism--spirituality; in lieu of equality feminism--transformative feminism. The signs of this development are already seen everywhere: in the New Age, in urban communes, in Occupy movement, in the mothers' movement. Based on critique of the failures of capitalism, the State, enlightment, patriarchy, and even western feminism, the book's second part presents alternatives coming from outside the patriarchal framework. For example: the maternal gift economy as an economic model and human logic; matriarchal society--balanced, free and equal; gift giving and subsistence perspective instead of exchange and accumulation; motherism as a central concept in African legacy; goddesses as spiritual and cultural icons. Such perception challenges the escape from the mother or mothering (to career, for example) that is so prevalent in the West. The possibilities to actualize this re-understanding of motherhood and mothering--including local communities, healing and peacemaking--are presented in the third part."--

In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship, Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. The book treats with equal seriousness-and with equal good humor-the insights of Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnographic reporting, in order to rethink the representation of Melanesian social and cultural life. This makes The Gender of the Gift one of the most sustained critiques of cross-cultural comparison that anthropology

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1. Introduction / Sarah Jane Blithe and Janell C. Bauer -- 2. Badass Activities for Threading Together Theory, Pedagogy, and Activism / Janell C. Bauer and Sarah Jane Blithe -- Part I. Black Lives Matter -- 3. Being Black in the Ivory: Telling Our Truth and Taking Up Space / Angela N. Gist-Mackey, Ashley R. Hall, and Shardé M. Davis -- 4. #Blackindigenousstoriesmatter / Anita Mixon -- 5. Your Black Friends Are Tired / Andrea Ewing -- 6. Inciting Change with My Keyboard: Leveraging Hashtag Activism to Fight Anti-Black Racism during COVID-19 / Shardé M. Davis -- 7. The Reality of Our Dreams: Black Lives' Fears / Prisca S. Ngondo -- 8. Black Women in Black Lives Matter: Navigating Being Both Engaged and Dismissed / Cerise L. Glenn -- 9. Antiracist Holistic Change in "STEM" Higher Education / Melanie Duckworth and Kelly J. Cross -- 10. Fighting for Black Studies: An Essay about Educational Empowerment / Idrissa N. Snider -- 11. When You Can't Call the Cops: Intimate Partner Violence and #BlackLivesMatter / Rebecca Mercado Jones and Jayna Marie Jones -- 12. Discovering Your Social Justice Gift amid the Distraction of Systemic Racism / Siobhan E. Smith-Jones and Johnny Jones -- 13. Sexuality in My Reality: An Autoethnography of a Black Woman's Resistance of Sexual Stereotypes / Savaughn Williams -- 14. The Forgotten Ones (for Those Who Survive Black Death) / Robin M. Boylorn -- 15. Performative Activism: Inauthentic Allyship in the Midst of a Racial Pandemic / Tina M. Harris -- Part II. Narrating the Material Body -- 16. Nevertheless, She Feels Pretty: A Critical Co-constructed Autoethnography on Fat Persistence and Resistance / Cassidy D. Ellis and Sarah Gonzalez Noveiri.

Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Science and Inequality: Controversial Issues -- Controversial Issues -- Do Sciences and their Philosophies have a "Political Unconscious"? -- Which Philosophies of Science are Adequate for a World of Sciences? -- Nature and Culture -- The New Organization of Scientific Inquiry -- Scientific Accountability and Responsibility: from Science as Representation to Science as Practice -- Some Terminological Challenges -- The Importance of Controversy about Science and Society -- Part 1: The Social World of Scientific Research -- 1: Thinking about Race and Science -- Is Science Racist? -- Defenses of Racist Scientific Practices -- Natural Racial Types? -- The Racist Misuse and abuse of sciences and their applications and technologies -- Racist Social Structures in the Sciences -- A World of Sciences: Race, Culture, and Empire -- Conclusion: The Radical Role of Antiracist Resistance -- 2: Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us: Postcolonial Science Studies -- "Would the Gift the Genie Give Us …" -- Are the Natural Sciences Multicultural? -- Does Modern Science have Non-Western Origins? -- Could there be Other Culturally Distinctive Sciences that Work? -- Is Modern Science Culturally "Western"? -- Other Modern Sciences? -- 3: With Both Eyes Open: A World of Sciences -- One Planet, Many Sciences? -- Projects Starting in the Global South -- Integrate Other Sciences into Western Sciences -- Delinking -- Integrate Northern Sciences into Other Sciences -- Southern Models for Northern Sciences -- Projects Starting in the North -- 4: Northern Feminist Science Studies: New Challenges and Opportunities -- Feminist Science and Technology Studies in the Global North -- Surviving Discriminatory Social Structures.

A beautifully illustrated history celebrating the achievements of American women from 1920 to present day The year 2020 will mark the 100th anniversary of women's right to vote in America, and what better way to commemorate the 19th Amendment than with a gorgeously illustrated handbook that explores a century's worth of feminism' Each chapter illustrates 10 landmark moments in each decade from 1920 to 2020. Featuring iconic events and the trailblazing women who made them happen, from Amelia Earhart to Shirley Chisholm, The Illustrated Feminist will inspire both dedicated feminists and burgeoning activists to continue the fight for women's rights. Aura Lewis's powerful artwork coupled with her well-researched and accessible text make this book an ideal gift for anyone looking to celebrate groundbreaking women and their colorful history.

Foreword: Ecofeminism and speculative fiction : a writer's reflection / Vandana Singh -- Preface / Douglas A. Vakoch -- Introduction / Patrick D. Murphy -- Climate change and future Earth dystopias. An ecofeminist reading of Octavia Butler's Parable of the sower and Parable of talents / Hatice Övgü Tüzün -- An ecofeminist treatment of nourishment and feeding in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy / Debra Wain -- Margaret Atwood's ecodystopic SF : approaching ethics, gender, and ecology / Izabel F. O. Brandão and Ildney Cavalcant -- Ecofeminist (post) Ice-Age ecotopia : Doris Lessing's 'Mara and Dann' books / Julia Kuznetsk -- Ecofeminist climate fiction : Merlinda Bobis's Locust girl / Iris Ralph -- Utopias on Earth and beyond. 'Extinction is forever' : ecofeminism and apocalypse in Louise Lawrence's young adult short fiction / Michelle Deininger and Gemma Scammel -- Ecofeminist utopian speculations in Henrietta Augusta Dugdale's A Few hours in a far-off age (1883), Catherine Helen Spence's A Week in the future (1888), Mary Anne Moore-Bentley's A Woman of Mars; or, Australia's enfranchised woman (1901), and Joyce Vincent's The Celestial hand: a sensational story / Nicole Anae -- Alien ecofeminist societies : sharers in Joan Slonczewski's A Door into ocean / Irene Sanz Alonso -- Re-reading Ursula K. Le Guin's SF : the Daoist yin principle in ecofeminist novels / Amy Chan Kit-sze -- Keeping grows; giving flows : reciprocal relations and the gift of Always coming home / Karl Zuelke -- 'The revolt of the mother' : romanticizing nature and rejecting science in Sally Miller Gearhart's The Wanderground and other feminist utopias / Christy Tidwell.

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figure; List of abbreviations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Marx, biotechnology and the life sciences: rewriting biocapital?; Time for renewed conversations: capitalism and the body; The global business of egg donation; Case study and methods: diffracting egg donation in South Africa; Outline and chapter structure; 2 Valuable eggs and lively capital in South Africa; Conditions of possibility: technologies travel as well as business models; The value(s) of the 'gift of life'

"This is the first book-length examination of the notion of gendered politics in Sophocles' Trachiniae. Making use of feminist theory and tackling the political nature of the categories of identity, culture and sexuality, Seferiadi brings the interpretation of Sophocles' play up-to-date with the most recent scholarly developments. She discusses the play in the light of its Amazonian and monstrous background and touches upon topics such as marriage and the exchange of women; reciprocity within a corroded system of gift-exchanges; and the dynamics of female silence and the 'impaired' hegemonic masculinity. Contributing to the topic of rape in the ancient world, this book focuses on sexual violence and the intertwinement of marriage and rape from the perspective of tragedy. With an Amazon being placed within the civilized arrangement of an oikos, the play negotiates the position of the female and advocates the need to expel the monstrous sexualities from the polis. Differing from previous analyses, this study is a reminder that female subjectivity was less foreclosed than is often tacitly assumed."--