Foundation Series, Plain View Press

The Plain View Press--Foundation Series is produced in collaboration with the Foundation for a Compassionate Society. These books present the theoretical vision and activism which has emerged from the World Women's Movement at the end of the 20th century. Here are guiding principles for a new feminism, rooted in historical feminism and informed by the voices of women from all countries and cultures. Here are activists and common women who have worked for freedom, justice, compassion, and respect for all people, in governments and in families, world-wide, now and in the future.

This series, begun in 1996, is new to Plain View Press. We are proud to be able to bring these books to you because they provide the theoretical and activist matrix from which the work we have done for 21 years has emerged. Plain View Press has always been an issue-based publishing house. Here are the issues. For ordering information: Plain View Press or call 1-800-878-3605.


For-Giving--A Feminist Crtiticism of Exchange
by Genevieve Vaughan
Introduction by Robin Morgan
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.
Art by Liliana Wilson, graphics by Liliana Wilson and Genevieve Vaughan. 450 pgs, $17.50, ISBN: 0-911051-94-5.





Feminist Family Values Forum
Edited by Susan Bright
Addresses by: Gloria Steinem, Angela Davis, Maria Jimenez, Mililani Trask

More than two thousand people gathered on Mother's Day, 1996, to listen to keynote and community speakers discuss issues relating to feminist family values.

The right wing does not have a corner on family values. Feminists love their children too and propose the liberation of the family from patriarchal extremist models. It is clear from this collection of commentaries that a new wave of activism is growing past the word feminism to emerge for the first time as a world women's movement, informed by diverse opinions, visions, wisdom and dedicated to the liberation of all people.

132 pgs, $15.95
ISBN: 0-911051-86-4.




Nobody Can Imagine Our Longing
Edited by Yana Mintoff Bland
Addresses from the Association of Women of the Mediterranean Region, 1996 Conference

"Nobody Can Imagine Our Longing" presents the previously muffled voices of victims of war and military occupation which can at last be heard through 30 selected writings of the most recent conference of the Association of the Women of the Mediterranean Region--women from the former Yugoslavia,Italy, the Philippines, Algeria, Malta, Tunisia, Palestine, Lebanon, Isreal, and Cyprus explain what political conflicts have meant in human terms to women and their children.

136 pgs, $12.95
ISBN: 0-911051-93-7





In Search of Peace

The voices of an international group of women who gather for a yearly conference presented by the Association of Women of the Mediterranean Region are directed in this volume to the subject of Education for Peace.

"There cannot be stability, progress and development unless there is peace and there cannot be peace unless we learn to respect each other's human rights and fundamental freedoms.

148 pgs, $12.95, ISBN: 1-891386-01-8