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Acknowledgements	v

Introduction: A Radically Different Worldview is Possible Genevieve Vaughan	1

I. The Gift Economy, Past and Present
Indigenous Knowledge and Gift Giving: Living in Community Jeannette Armstrong	41

Pan Dora Revisited: From Patriarchal Woman-Blaming to a Feminist Gift Imaginary Kaarina Kailo	50

The Gift Logic of Indigenous Philosophies in the Academy Rauna Kuokkanen	71

She Gives the Gift of Her Body Vicki Noble	84

The Goddess Temple of Sekhmet: A Gift Economy Project Patricia Pearlman	96

Matriarchal Society and the Gift Paradigm: Motherliness as an Ethical Principle Heide Goettner-Abendroth	99

Significs and Semioethics: Places of the Gift in Communication Today Susan Petrilli	108

The Biology of Business: Crisis as a Gifting Opportunity Elisabet Sahtouris	121

II. Gifts Exploited by the Market
Capitalist Patriarchy and the Negation of Matriarchy: The Struggle for a “Deep”Alternative Claudia von Werlhof	139

Big Mountain Black Mesa: The Beauty Way Louise Benally	154

The Tragedy of the Enclosures: An Eco-Feminist Perspective on Selling Oxygen and Prostitution in Costa Rica Ana Isla	157

Real Bodies, Place-Bound Work and Transnational Homemaking: A Feminist Project Mechthild Hart	171

The Rural Women’s Movement in South Africa: Land Reform and HIV/AIDs Sizani Ngubane	181

Endangered Species: The Language of Our Lives Margaret Randall	187

Facing the Shadow of 9-11 Carol Brouillet	193

Heterosexism and the Norm of Normativity Genevieve Vaughan	199

III: Gifts in the Shadow of Exchange
The Khoekhoe Free Economy: A Model for the Gift Yvette Abrahams	217

Gift Giving Across Borders Maria Jimenez	222

The Gift Economy in the Caribbean: The Gift and the Wind Peggy Antrobus	230

The Children of the World: A Gift Assetou Madeleine Auditore	235

Solidarity Economics: Women’s Banking Networks in Senegal Rabia Adelkarim-Chikh	238

Women’s Funding Partnerships Tracy Gary	241

Gift Giving and New Communication Technologies Andrea Alvarado Vargas and María Suárez Toro	248

Trapped by Patriarchy: Can I Forgive Men? Erella Shadmi	253

Women’s Community Gifting: A Feminist Key to an Alternative Paradigm Linda Christiansen-Ruffman	257

IV. Gift Giving for Social Transformation
Indigenous Women and Traditional Knowledge: Reciprocity is the Way of Balance Mililani Trask	293

Supryia and the Reviving of a Dream: Toward a New Political Imaginary Corinne Kumar	301

Reflecting on Gifting and the Gift Economy in El Salvador Marta Benavides	310

From Forced Gifts to Free Gifts Paola Melchiori	318

The Gift of Community Radio Frieda Werden	327

Gifting at the Burning Man Festival Renea Roberts	353

Activism: A Creative Gift for a Better World Brackin Firecracker	356

Women’s Giving: Feminist Transformation and Human Welfare Angela Miles	364

Position Statement for a Peaceful World	375

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