Women and the Gift : Beyond the Given and All-Giving.
Title:
Women and the Gift : Beyond the Given and All-Giving.
Author:
Joy, Morny.
ISBN:
9780253010339
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (244 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Pandora and the Ambiguous Works of Women: All-Taking or All-Giving? -- 2. Nietzsche, the Gift, and the Taken for Granted -- 3. "Everything Comes Back to It": Woman as the Gift in Derrida -- 4. Melancholia, Forgiveness, and the Logic of The Gift -- 5. Gift of Being, Gift of Self -- 6. The Gift of Being, Gift of World(s): Irigaray on Heidegger -- 7. Graceful Gifts: Hélène Cixous and the Radical Gifts of Other Love -- 8. John Milbank and the Feminine Gift -- 9. De Beauvoir and the Myth of the Given -- 10. Women and the Gift: Speculations on the "Given" and the "All-Giving" -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
Recent inquiries into the concept of the gift have been largely male-dominated and thus have ignored important aspects of the gift from a woman's point of view. In the light of philosophical work by Mauss, Lévi-Strauss, Derrida, and Bataille, Women and the Gift reflects how women respond to the notion of the gift and relationships of giving. This collection evaluates and critiques previous work on the gift and also responds to how women view care, fidelity, generosity, trust, and independence in light of the gift.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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