For-Giving

A Feminist Crtiticism of Exchange

by Genevieve Vaughan
Introduction by Robin Mogan

In this radical departure from traditional thinking, Vaughan draws the distinction between giftgiving, which is based on mothering, and exchange, which is based on masculine socialization--a paradigm that has brought the planet to the brink of extinction. It can be replaced--from within, by a paradigm based on mothering.

"This book is a gift--from author to reader, from an individual woman to the Women's Movement (and to men of conscience) everywhere.

"In a sense, every work of authentic feminist theory might be said to fit that category. But what Genevieve Vauthan has given us is something unique--a work as impassioned in feeling as it is thoughtful in analysis, one in which scrupulous research and scholarship resonate in synchony with, not opposition to, the finest impulses of the human heart."
Robin Morgan

"'For-Giving--A Feminist Criticism of Exchange' is a stimulating and provocative look at language and economics. Vaughan identifies gift-giving, arising from women's nurturing, as the basis for language and culture. Gift-giving is not a truncated form of exchange, but an inherently different system generating different social values. Whether you agree or disagree with her thesis, you will never look at language or money in quite the same way again."
Starhawk

Art by Liliana Wilson, graphics by Liliana Wilson and Genevieve Vaughan. 450 pgs
ISBN: 0-911051-94-5.

For this title, email: genvau@aol.com