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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
Today’s show provides a talk given by Genevieve Vaughan at the 2016 conference of the Mothering Institute for Research and Community Involvement in Toronto. Vaughan demonstrates that the act of mothering is unilateral gift-giving, and that an infant’s experience of being mothered (whether by biological mother or other) builds both the physical brain and the template of what it is to be human. She further asserts that the entire exchange economy is parasitic on a more fundamental gift economy that continues unacknowledged in most societies today. This program’s audio includes an excerpt from a video by Dr. Allan Schore, a clinical faculty member of the Dept. of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.
Genevieve Vaughan is a leading theorist in the Gift Economy movement. Find more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevieve_Vaughan.
The Women’s International News Gathering Service (WINGS) has been covering the global women’s movement and related issues for community radio around the world since 1986. WINGS may be contacted through email at [email protected].
