Free/Not Free - Softcover

Genevieve Vaughan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0967291240 ISBN 13: 9780967291246

Publisher: Anomaly Press, 2007

Synopsis

Two stories exemplifying two opposite premises are placed back to back and upside down. In Not Free we see what would happen if animals learned from people to buy and sell. In Free we see what would happen if people learned from animals how to do everything free.

About this title

About the Author:

Genevieve Vaughan is an independent researcher who was born in Texas, USA and presently lives in Italy. She has been working on the theory of a maternal gift economy as an alternative to Patriarchal Capitalism for many years. Vaughan's book For-Giving, a Feminist Criticism of Exchange, (Plain View Press 1997- now Anomaly Press) and two edited books Athanor:The Gift/ Il Dono: A Feminist Analysis (Meltemi Editore 2004), and Women and the Gift Economy: A Radically Different Worldview is Possible (Inanna Press 2007), her e book, Homo Donans (2007), two children's books Mother Nature's Children (Anomaly Press 2001) and Free/Not Free (Anomaly Press 2007) her cd Songs for the Tree of Life, a film on her life: Giving for Giving which will soon be aired on Free Speech TV and her many articles are all available free at her website.

A description of the Foundation for a Compassionate Society, an all-women activist foundation for social change which Genevieve founded and directed from 1987-1998 can also be found on the website as well as the audio recordings of the presentations of many international women from the conferences the foundation organized A Radically Different Worldview is Possible: The Gift Economy Inside and Outside Patriarchal Capitalism (2004) and Societies of Peace: the 2nd World Congress of Matriarchal Studies (2005) under the direction of Heide Goettner-Abendroth.

In 1992 Genevieve created a temple to the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet near the nuclear test site in the Nevada desert. The temple is still in existence and open to visitors. Genevieve has participated in a number of international women's conferences as well as many of the World Social Forums. She speaks on the gift economy in a wde variety of venues both individually and together with members of the network of which she was a main instigator, International Feminists for a Gift Economy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Anomaly Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0967291240
• ISBN 13: 9780967291246
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 30
• Illustrator: Liliana Wilson