NORTH COAST, Calif. – KZYX's “Women's Voices” on Monday, Sept. 16, will host independent researcher, author, speaker and activist Genevieve Vaughan.

The show will air beginning at 7 p.m. on 90.7 FM Philo, 88.1 FM Fort Bragg and 91.5 FM Willits, and also can be heard live at www.kzyx.org .

Host Janie Rezner will interview Vaughan about her work, which includes the theory of a maternal gift economy as an alternative to patriarchal capitalism.

Her books include “For-giving, a Feminist Criticism of Exchange” and “Women and the Gift Economy: A Radically Different Worldview is Possible.”

Consider that we humans have lived successfully without money or the concept of exchange for most of our 100,000 years on earth. Money, I.e. the exchange paradigm, is the cornerstone of patriarchal domination, Vaughan suggests.

“The gift paradigm has the advantage of restoring mothering to its rightful place in the constitution of the human,” Vaughan writes. “What has been wrongly proposed in the construction of gender, with devastating effects, such as the promotion of the values of dominance, competition and hierarchy (which are non nurturing values) can be countered by re introducing gift giving as a social value and interpretive key. Both male and female human beings are basically nurturers. One gender is not the binary opposite of the other. If we reintroduce the gift paradigm into our interpretation of the world, we will find our “gift-giver within” which will then be acknowledged and validated.”

The show will be archived at http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/contributor/4206 .