Feminist Time against Nation Time Gender, Politics, and the Nation-State in an Age of Permanent War

by Hesford, Victoria; Diedrich, Lisa; Grosz, Elizabeth; Heller, Dana; Kaplan, E Ann; Kristeva, Julia; Oliver, Kelly; Trigo, Benigno

• ISBN13: 9780739144282
• ISBN10: 0739144286
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-21
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Feminist Time against Nation Time combines philosophical examinations of "Women's Time" by Julia Kristeva and "The Time of Thought" by Elizabeth Grosz with essays offering case studies of particular events, including Kelly Oliver's essay on the media coverage of the U.S. wars on terror in Afghanistan and in Iraq, and Betty Joseph's on the anticolonial uses of "women's time" in the creation of nineteenth-century Indian nationalism. Victoria Hesford and Lisa Diedrich juxtapose feminist time against nation time in order to consider temporalities that are at once "contrary" but also "close to" or "drawing toward" each other. As an untimely project, feminism necessarily operates in a different temporality from that of the nation. Against-ness is used to provoke a rupture, a momentary opening up of a disjuncture between the two that allows us to explore the possibilities of creating a space and time for feminists to think against the current of the preset moment. Feminist Time against Nation Time will appeal to all levels to students and scholars. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Victoria Hesford and Lisa Diedrich are assistant professors of women's studies at Stony Brook University, New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Thinking Feminism in a Time of War	p. 1
Feminist Time Then and Now
Women's Time	p. 23
The Time of Thought	p. 41
Feminist Time and Texts
Politics, Psyche and Feminine Time: Nancy Meckler's Sister, My Sister and Pratibha Parmar's Memsahib Rita	p. 59
In the Time of Julia Alvarez: Reversing Matricidal Temporalities	p. 81
Feminist Time and Nations
Women's Time, Historical Discourse, and a Text of Indian Nationalism	p. 107
Visions of Politics, Time, and Nation: Arundhati Roy's Challenge to the Experts	p. 131
Feminist Time and Politics
Shooting Solanas: Radical Feminist History and the Technology of Failure	p. 151
Securing a Future: Feminist Futures in a Time of War	p. 169
Perpetual War	p. 185
Index	p. 205
About the Contributors	p. 209
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