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Book SynopsisReflects how women respond to the notion of the gift and relationships of giving.
Trade Review[S]eeks a broad audience and draws from philosophy, anthropology, religion, and feminist studies yet remains in a theoretical and philosophical realm . . .2014
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction \ Morny Joy
1. Pandora and the Ambiguous Works of Women: All-Taking or All-Giving? \ Deborah Lyons
2. Nietzsche, the Gift, and the Taken for Granted \ Lorraine Markotic
3. "Everything Comes Back to It": Woman as the Gift in Derrida \ Nancy J. Holland
4. Melancholia, Forgiveness, and the Logic of The Gift \ Kathleen O'Grady
5. Gift of Being, Gift of Self \ Mariana Ortega
6. The Gift of Being, Gift of World(s): Irigaray on Heidegger \ Maria Cimitile
7. Graceful Gifts: Hélène Cixous and the Radical Gifts of Other Love \ Sal Renshaw
8. John Milbank and the Feminine Gift \ Rachel Muers
9. De Beauvoir and the Myth of the Given \ Victoria Barker
10. Women and the Gift: Speculations on the "Given" and the "All-Giving" \ Morny Joy
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