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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. "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 Zusammenfassung Reflects how women respond to the notion of the gift and relationships of giving. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction \ Morny Joy 1. Pandora and the Ambiguous Works of Women: All-Taking or All-Giving? \ Deborah Lyons 2. Nietzsche, the Gift, and the Taken for Granted \ Lorraine Markotic 3. "Everything Comes Back to It": Woman as the Gift in Derrida \ Nancy J. Holland 4. Melancholia, Forgiveness, and the Logic of The Gift \ Kathleen O'Grady 5. Gift of Being, Gift of Self \ Mariana Ortega 6. The Gift of Being, Gift of World(s): Irigaray on Heidegger \ Maria Cimitile 7. Graceful Gifts: Hélène Cixous and the Radical Gifts of Other Love \ Sal Renshaw 8. John Milbank and the Feminine Gift \ Rachel Muers 9. De Beauvoir and the Myth of the Given \ Victoria Barker 10. Women and the Gift: Speculations on the "Given" and the "All-Giving" \ Morny Joy Contributors Index
