Feminine Economies is indispensable for those interested in debates in the eighteenth-century, and for those concerned by the numerous references to economy and to "the gift" in critical theory. The study is particularly pertinent to those who wish to see an interrogation of the relationship between both these fields by feminism. Contemporary theory has been much exercised by the question of the gift -- whether there is some mode of relation that escapes the dominant paradigm of market exchange. Feminine Economies focuses both on the latter part of the twentieth century and on the key pre-text of the Enlightenment, a moment in which the market economy as we know it today was becoming established and the terms of today's debates were being created. Concentrating on Rousseau's anti-market and anti-colonial stand, and working both alongside and against Diderot's Supplement au Voyage de Bougainville and Sarah Scott's Millennium Hall Judith Still also reflects on the interrelationship of those "anti-market" texts, such as Plato's Republic, More's. Utopia, and Montaigne's On the Cannibals.