Women and the Gift

Morny Joy is University Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is editor of Continental Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion and After Appropriation: Explorations in Intercultural Philosophy and Religion.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction \ Morny Joy1. Pandora and the Ambiguous Works of Women: All-Taking or All-Giving? \ Deborah Lyons2. Nietzsche, the Gift, and the Taken for Granted \ Lorraine Markotic3. "Everything Comes Back to It": Woman as the Gift in Derrida \ Nancy J. Holland4. Melancholia, Forgiveness, and the Logic of The Gift \ Kathleen O'Grady5. Gift of Being, Gift of Self \ Mariana Ortega6. The Gift of Being, Gift of World(s): Irigaray on Heidegger \ Maria Cimitile7. Graceful Gifts: Hélène Cixous and the Radical Gifts of Other Love \ Sal Renshaw8. John Milbank and the Feminine Gift \ Rachel Muers9. De Beauvoir and the Myth of the Given \ Victoria Barker10. Women and the Gift: Speculations on the "Given" and the "All-Giving" \ Morny JoyContributorsIndex

"[S]eeks a broad audience and draws from philosophy, anthropology, religion, and feminist studies yet remains in a theoretical and philosophical realm . . .2014"—NONPROFIT & VOLUNTARY SEC QTLY"It is not only that women as givers are not noticed; it is also that women are often the gifts or objects of exchange. There has been virtually no attention to the gendered nature of the discourse."—Grace M. Jantzen, University of Manchester