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#28-04
A MARKET-FREE ECONOMY
Time: 29:00
Genevieve Vaughan,
For-Giving: A Feminist Criticism of Exchange
Peggy Antrobus,
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era
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"Not a Free Market, but a Market-Free Economy" was the
title of a panel held at The University of Texas at Austin in November
2002. Two of the speakers were Genevieve Vaughan (from Texas and
Italy), author of For-Giving: A Feminist Criticism of Exchange,
and Peggy Antrobus (from Barbados), co-founder of a network of feminist
economic thinkers from the global South -- DAWN (Development Alternatives
with Women for a New Era). Vaughan says the theory that self-interest
is the principal motivator of human behaviour is fallacious. Antrobus
tells how people in Caribbean society survive by practicing a gift
economy. The moderator is Fatma Alloo, of the Tanzania Media Women's
Association. Produced by Frieda Werden.
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#26-04
MATRIARCHY PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Time: 29:00
Dr. Claudia
von-Werlhof,
University of Innsbruck, Austria
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Dr. Claudia von-Werlhof is a full professor of women's
studies and political science at the University of Innsbruck, in Austria.
Frieda Werden interviews her about her forthcoming paper, "Capitalist
Patriarchy and the Struggle for a Deep Alternative," to be presented
at the conference A Radically Different World View is Possible: The
Gift Economy Inside and Outside Patriarchal Capitalism. The professor
sees both capitalism and international socialism as attempts to realize
an impossible and disastrous patriarchal fantasy: men and technology
replacing women and nature as the sources of life. According to von-Werlhof,
matriarchy literally means not female domination but something like:
origination in the uterus. She cites Genevieve Vaughanıs analysis
of the gift economy as a life-affirming matriarchal second culture
that can still be observed within even the most industrialized societies,
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