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.

"[S]eeks a broad audience and draws from philosophy, anthropology, religion, and feminist studies yet remains in a theoretical and philosophical realm . . .2014"—NONPROFIT & VOLUNTARY SEC QTLY"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

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction \ Morny Joy1. Pandora and the Ambiguous Works of Women: All-Taking or All-Giving? \ Deborah Lyons2. Nietzsche, the Gift, and the Taken for Granted \ Lorraine Markotic3. "Everything Comes Back to It": Woman as the Gift in Derrida \ Nancy J. Holland4. Melancholia, Forgiveness, and the Logic of The Gift \ Kathleen O'Grady5. Gift of Being, Gift of Self \ Mariana Ortega6. The Gift of Being, Gift of World(s): Irigaray on Heidegger \ Maria Cimitile7. Graceful Gifts: Hélène Cixous and the Radical Gifts of Other Love \ Sal Renshaw8. John Milbank and the Feminine Gift \ Rachel Muers9. De Beauvoir and the Myth of the Given \ Victoria Barker10. Women and the Gift: Speculations on the "Given" and the "All-Giving" \ Morny JoyContributorsIndex