Thinking Through the Gift Paradigm by Genevieve Vaughan 6
Sharing Economies and Indigenous Matricultures in the Land Now Called Canada by Irene Friesen Wolfstone 13
From the Magic of ToGaianess: Ngapartji-Ngapartji in Indigenous Australia by Glenys Livingstone 19
The Mother-Suckling-Child Principle of the Gift in Indigenous North American Culture by Barbara Alice Mann 23
Giving and Receiving: The Maternal Basis of Life and Language by Genevieve Vaughan 31
Gift Logic, Mother Sense and Language: On Victoria Welby’s Significs by Susan Petrilli 40
Ideals and Practices of Giving in Islam by Daniela Falcioni 56
Holding and Carrying Our Babies: A Gift-Giving Practice in
Anishinaabeg Mothering Cultural Traditions by Renée E. Mazinegiizhigoo-kwe Bédard 67
Grandmothers at the Centre in Velingara, Senegal: The Transmission of Knowledge,
Education, Intergenerational Relationships and the Gift Logic by Francesca Lulli 79
Gift Economy in Maternity and Childbirth in Italy by Elena Skoko 91
Gift in Everyday Life and Activism
Deserving, Gifting, and Needs by Miki Kashtan 98
Gen Vaughan and the Maternal Gift Economy by Vicki Noble 107
My First Encounter with the Feminist Gift Economy by Angela Dolmetsch 111
“Not To Worry”: Cecily Shackleton’s Polar Gift Giving and the Oxford
University Ellesmere Land Expedition of 1934-35 by Maura Hanrahan 114
The Jewish Tzedakah (Gifting) Community by Erella Shadmi 123
Women, Chevra Kadisha and the Gift Economy by Judith Maeryam Dunkelberger Wouk 132
Sauna Exists, Therefore I Am: Gifting Rituals of the Finnish Sauna by Kaarina Kailo 140
Placental Roots for Honouring an Embodied Gift Economy of Birth by Nané Jordan 152
Unveiling Patriarchal Motherhood by Mariam Irene Tazi-Preve 163
Sturgeon Visitations by Susan McCaslin 11
November Table II by Fran Westwood 18
Yours, my, mine: G.i.f.t.s. by l.a.r.k. 18
Making Kin by Fran Westwood 22
The Fourteen by Joanna M. Weston 30
My blind sister’s mortuary dress by Ilona Martonfi 55
Celtic Knots: Introduction (paternal side) by Katerina Vaughan Fretwell 66
Window by Fran Westwood 78
Inanna by Susan McCaslin 78
Skibbereen Workhouse by Ilona Martonfi 97
Corn in Egypt by W. M. Herring 106
One Morning in Birkenau by Ilona Martonfi 110
Banana Insight by Diane Driedger 113
Prairie Heartbeats by K-Lynn 139
Letter to a Stranger by Joanna M. Weston 151
Twined Tales by Joanna M. Weston 161
The First Week by Holly Day 162
Leaving by W. M. Herring 162
The Chaperones by Ilona Martonfi 162
Have I Got the Strength by Holly Day 173