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2018 Conference papers:
#1 Genevieve Vaughan on the Gift Economy:
“We are born into a Gift Economy practiced by those who mother us, enabling us to survive. The economy of exchange, quid pro quo, separates us from each other and makes us adversarial, while gift giving and receiving creates mutuality and trust.”
Beyond Capitalist Patriarchy: the Model of the Maternal Gift Economy
The two parts of this paper were presented on March 17, 2018, at the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology Conference in Las Vegas, and on the following day, March 18, at the associated Modern Matriarchal Studies Day.
The paper presented on March 17 was part of the panel “Motherhood, Resistance, and Matriarchal Politics,” with co-presenters Vicki Noble and Heide Goettner-Abendroth.
Genevieve also presented an earlier version of this paper on March 12, 2018, to the Cambridge Realist Workshop, Clare College, Cambridge University, in Cambridge, England in a shared Session with Professor Rajani Kanth.