Description
Book SynopsisThe gendered experience of time
Trade Review"Reckons with temporality and gendering in a careful and original way." -Ellen Feder, American University "By bringing phenomenological and feminist perspectives to bear, this collection of essays brings together two fields that have not been sufficiently articulated together." -Alia Al-Saji, McGill University
Table of Contents 1. Introduction: Toward a Feminist Phenomenology of Time / Christina Schües
2. Prologue: The Origin of Time, the Origin of Philosophy / Dorothea Olkowski
Part 1. Methodological Considerations and the Body
3. Personality, Anonymity, and Sexual Difference: The Temporal Formation of the Transcendental Ego / Sara Heinämaa
4. The Power of Time: Temporal Experiences and A-temporal Thinking? / Christina Schües
5. Gender and Anonymous Temporality / Silvia Stoller
6. Gendering Embodied Memory / Linda Fisher
7. The Time of the Self: A Feminist Reflection on Ricoeur's Notion of Narrative Identity / Annemie Halsema
Part 2. Ethical and Political Perspectives on Time
8. Contingency, Newness, and Freedom: Arendt's Recovery of the Temporal Condition of Politics / Veronica Vasterling
9. Questioning "Homeland" through Yael Bartana's Wild Seeds / Helen A. Fielding
10. Sharing Time across Unshared Horizons / Gail Weiss
List of Contributors
Index