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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shadmi, Erella, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism.

Feminist economics.

Motherhood--Political aspects.

Motherhood.

Genre:

Informational works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Inanna Publications and Education Inc., [2021]

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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction: Motherhood-Between Chaos, Malfunction, Magic, and Vision

Part 1

Austrian Welfare State and the Mother Trap

Limbo1

Between Holy Mary and Umna el-Ghula: Reflections on an Anxious Motherhood

Mother's House

Mothering Our Way Home from Sparta

Part 2

Theory and Practice of the Gift Economy

Matriarchal Societies and Modern Matriarchal Studies

Local Economics and Subsistence Culture

Motherism: Nature's Way Is the Way of the Woman

Divine Surprise: The Female Side of God

Part 3

The Way into an Egalitarian Society: Principles of a Matriarchal Politics

Nashira: Building a New Matriarchal Society in Colombia

Pagoda, Temple of Love, 1977: Practice Ground for the Matriarchy

The Possibility of a Society of Peace in Israel/Palestine

Rematriation: Bringing Our People Home

Contributors

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Shadmi, Erella The Legacy of Mothers

ISBN:

9781771337106

1771337109

9781771337120

1771337125

OCLC:

1285779920