LEADER 04189nam 2200505 450 001 9910795140003321 005 20220905084006.0 010 $a1-77133-710-9 010 $a1-77133-712-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6803777 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6803777 035 $a(CKB)19410537800041 035 $a(OCoLC)1285779920 035 $a(PPN)26630589X 035 $a(EXLCZ)9919410537800041 100 $a20220905d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe legacy of mothers $ematriarchies and the gift economy as post-caplitalist alternatives /$fedited by Erella Shadmi 210 1$aToronto :$cInanna Publications and Education Inc.,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (337 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Shadmi, Erella The Legacy of Mothers Toronto : Inanna Publications and Education Inc.,c2021 9781771337090 327 $aCover -- 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. 330 $a"The many powerful voices of the international contributors to this anthology argue that motherhood may be the foundation of alternative human logic, a new socio-political order, a new value system, and a way of liberating mothers themselves. This book does not present a utopia but a possible road to an alternative evolvement of the world different from the common thinking in the Global North: In lieu of capitalism--the gift economy and the subsistence economy; in lieu of trans-humanism--nature and all her human and non-human inhabitants; in lieu of individualism--community; in lieu of domination--balance and responsibility; in lieu of State--localism; in lieu of monotheism--spirituality; in lieu of equality feminism--transformative feminism. The signs of this development are already seen everywhere: in the New Age, in urban communes, in Occupy movement, in the mothers' movement. Based on critique of the failures of capitalism, the State, enlightment, patriarchy, and even western feminism, the book's second part presents alternatives coming from outside the patriarchal framework. For example: the maternal gift economy as an economic model and human logic; matriarchal society--balanced, free and equal; gift giving and subsistence perspective instead of exchange and accumulation; motherism as a central concept in African legacy; goddesses as spiritual and cultural icons. Such perception challenges the escape from the mother or mothering (to career, for example) that is so prevalent in the West. The possibilities to actualize this re-understanding of motherhood and mothering--including local communities, healing and peacemaking--are presented in the third part."--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aCapitalism 606 $aFeminist economics 606 $aMotherhood$xPolitical aspects 608 $aInformational works.$2lcgft 615 0$aCapitalism. 615 0$aFeminist economics. 615 0$aMotherhood$xPolitical aspects. 676 $a330.122 686 $acci1icc$2lacc 702 $aShadmi$b Erella 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795140003321 996 $aThe legacy of mothers$93778942 997 $aUNINA