Abstract: Angela Miles
Women's Giving: A New Frame for Feminist Policy Demands
"Women have worked to transform political spaces and have made important,
though fragile and highly contested gains in the last decades in affirming
women's legal, sexual and reproductive rights, challenging fundamentalisms,
opposing violence, and war, improving women's education, health and economic
conditions. These struggles have broken new ground while remaining within
the exchange paradigm. Our successes and failures challenge and inspire
us to seek new terrain, recognizing that 'the masters tools can never
be used to dismantle the masters house' (Audre Lord)." (Feminists for
a Gift Economy Statement, Oct 22, 2001 Preparatory to the World Social
Forum Porto Alegre Jan 2002)
At a recent national gathering in Pictou, Nova Scotia to discuss feminist
social change strategy in the context of new neo-liberal realities, Canadian
feminists brought gift related principles into their articulation of the
feminist demand for an annual general income. This presentation will explore
the significance of such a new value basis and knowledge paradigm for
the future framing of feminist public policy engagement in general.
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