Research Catalog

Title

The legacy of mothers : matriarchies and the gift economy as post-caplitalist alternatives / edited by Erella Shadmi.

Publication

• Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Inanna Publications & Education Inc., [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

Shadmi, Erella

Description

lxxiii, 262 pages : (some) black and white illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"The many powerful voices of the international contributors to this anthology argue that motherhood may be the foundation of alternative human logic, a new socio-political order, a new value system, and a way of liberating mothers themselves. This book does not present a utopia but a possible road to an alternative evolvement of the world different from the common thinking in the Global North: In lieu of capitalism--the gift economy and the subsistence economy; in lieu of trans-humanism--nature and all her human and non-human inhabitants; in lieu of individualism--community; in lieu of domination--balance and responsibility; in lieu of State--localism; in lieu of monotheism--spirituality; in lieu of equality feminism--transformative feminism. The signs of this development are already seen everywhere: in the New Age, in urban communes, in Occupy movement, in the mothers' movement. Based on critique of the failures of capitalism, the State, enlightment, patriarchy, and even western feminism, the book's second part presents alternatives coming from outside the patriarchal framework. For example: the maternal gift economy as an economic model and human logic; matriarchal society--balanced, free and equal; gift giving and subsistence perspective instead of exchange and accumulation; motherism as a central concept in African legacy; goddesses as spiritual and cultural icons. Such perception challenges the escape from the mother or mothering (to career, for example) that is so prevalent in the West. The possibilities to actualize this re-understanding of motherhood and mothering--including local communities, healing and peacemaking--are presented in the third part."--

Subject

• Feminist economics
• Capitalism
• Matriarchy
• Motherhood > Social aspects
• Motherhood > Political aspects
• Feminist theory

Genre/Form

Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Contents

Introduction : Motherhood--between chaos, malfunction, magic, and vision / Erella Shadmi -- Part 1 : Motherhood under patriarchy -- I. Austrian welfare state and the mother trap / Mariam Irene Tazi-Preve -- II. Limbo / Ana Anonyma -- III. Between Holy Mary and Umma el-Ghula : reflections on an anxious motherhood / Honaida Ghanem -- IV. Mother's house / Shula Keshet -- V. Mothering our way home from Sparta / Barbara Alice Mann -- Part 2 : Mother's path : motherhood outside patriarchy -- VI. Theory and practice of the gift economy / Genevieve Vaughan -- VII. Matriarchal societies and modern matriarchal studies / Heide Goettner-Abendroth -- VIII. Local economics and subsistence culture / Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen -- IX. Motherism : nature's way is the way of the woman / Catherine Acholonu -- X. Divine surprise : the female side of God / Annine van der Meer -- Part 3 : Motherhood as an alternative : implementations and possibilities -- XI. The way into an egalitarian society : principles of a matriarchal politics / Heide Goettner-Abendroth -- XII. Nashira : building a new matriarchal society in Colombia / Angela Dolmetsch -- XIII. Pagoda, Temple of Love, 1977 : practice ground for the matriarchy / Lin Daniels -- XIV. The possibility of a society of peace in Israel/Palestine / Erella Shadmi -- XV. Rematriation : bringing our people home / Susan Deer Cloud -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments.

Call Number

JFE 22-757

ISBN

• 9781771337090
• 1771337095

OCLC

1096459013

Title

The legacy of mothers : matriarchies and the gift economy as post-caplitalist alternatives / edited by Erella Shadmi.

Publisher

Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Inanna Publications & Education Inc., [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats

Issued also in electronic format.

Added Author

Shadmi, Erella, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Legacy of mothers. Toronto : Inanna Publications & Education Inc., 2021 1771337109 9781771337106 (OCoLC)1110183910

Research Call Number

JFE 22-757