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COMMUNITY and MONEY

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

The Desire for "New Harmony": Community Currencies as Social Experiments
Community Currencies in Ontario and New York State
Community Currencies as "Utopian" Social Experiments

CHAPTER ONE

"What's Wrong with Money?": A Gender Perspective on Exchange Relations
Observing "Gender" in LETS and HOURS
The "Problem with Money" and the Call for Parallel Currencies

CHAPTER TWO

"Not a Perfect Leveller": Revaluation and Gender Equity
Implications of Design for Gender Egalitarianism
LETS
HOURS
WomanShare
Comparison of HOURS Artisans Seeking "New Harmony"

CHAPTER THREE

"Currency of Friendship": Community Currencies as Gift Economies
"The Gift" in Social Anthropology and Feminist Theory
The LETS Network as a Gift Economy
The Gender of the Gift in LETS

CHAPTER FOUR

"What my Freedom is all About": Women, Men and Money
Gender and Money: Issues of Self and Relationship
Women's "Undervaluation" and Uneasiness with Money
Explanations of "Undervaluation" as Gender Difference
Gender and Money: Women Seeking Change
The Psychology of Women's "Undervaluation"
Gender and Money: The Class/Gender Structure
"Undervaluation" and Race/Class/Gender Relations of Distribution

CHAPTER FIVE

"A Very Social Thing": Consumer Politics and Community
The Gendering of Consumption in Historical Perspective
The Consumer Politics of Community Currencies
1 Consumer Politics of Directed Spending
11 Consumer Politics through Choice of Currency
III Beyond Consumption: Building Community by Supporting the System
The Problem of Gendered Consumption

CONCLUSION

'There's a Flow to it': Gender Balance and Balanced Accounts

 

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