Women and the Gift : Beyond the Given and All-Giving /

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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, this book reflects how women respond to the notion...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Joy, Morny (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women > Psychology.
Generosity.
Magnanimity.
Femmes > Psychologie.
Générosité.
Magnanimité.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Developmental > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Developmental > Lifespan Development.
PSYCHOLOGY > General.
RELIGION > Sexuality & Gender Studies.
Generosity
Magnanimity
Women > Psychology
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Pandora and the Ambiguous Works of Women : All-Taking or All-Giving?
  • Nietzsche, the Gift, and the Taken for Granted
  • "Everything Comes Back to It" : Woman as the Gift in Derrida
  • Melancholia, Forgiveness, and the Logic of The Gift
  • Gift of Being, Gift of Self
  • The Gift of Being, Gift of World(s) : Irigaray on Heidegger
  • Graceful Gifts : Hélène Cixous and the Radical Gifts of Other Love
  • John Milbank and the Feminine Gift
  • De Beauvoir and the Myth of the Given
  • Women and the Gift : Speculations on the "Given" and the "All-Giving".

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