Authors :
Aarti Suhag
Volume/Issue :
Volume 8 - 2023, Issue 4 - April
Google Scholar :
https://bit.ly/3TmGbDi
Scribd :
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DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7888927
Abstract :
We will study the importance of time in feminist
theory. After that we go on to First, Second, and Third
Waves of Feminism and then to larger bodies of work
within which to employ concepts. Time is really interesting
and to progress along the trajectory. Because Time on the
face of it is such an, “objective” concept. Surely, we are not
going to spoil Time with gender again? So, this is the kind
of question I get all the time when I say Time. Why is it
that we are looking at Time and relation to gender? And
therefore, the second question always is, what kind of Time
are we talking about? While Time structures all of our
daily lives in a very-very obvious fashion, we all know,
almost intuitively, that each of our experiences of time
differs often, depending on, say in common-sensical
knowledge, the kind of person that you are. How do you
experience Time? Are you always in a hurry? Are you
always running behind Time? Are you always somewhere
before Time? What are the kinds of people that can afford
latitude in the ways in which they deal with Time? What
are the kinds of people to whom Time does not matter?
Think about the ubiquitous person who is always late and
takes it for granted that you will wait for them. Everybody
therefore deals with Time in a unique fashion. In our
analysis today, we are suggesting that this kind of dealing
with Time has a very specific gender element to it, that if
we try and understand it, not just in the ways in which
men deal with Time as opposed to women dealing with
Time, although there is a particular aspect of it, it is also
the other question: What kinds of demands does Time
exert upon masculine versus feminine subjects? So,
keeping these questions in mind. Let us start by talking
about, what kind of Time?
We will study the importance of time in feminist
theory. After that we go on to First, Second, and Third
Waves of Feminism and then to larger bodies of work
within which to employ concepts. Time is really interesting
and to progress along the trajectory. Because Time on the
face of it is such an, “objective” concept. Surely, we are not
going to spoil Time with gender again? So, this is the kind
of question I get all the time when I say Time. Why is it
that we are looking at Time and relation to gender? And
therefore, the second question always is, what kind of Time
are we talking about? While Time structures all of our
daily lives in a very-very obvious fashion, we all know,
almost intuitively, that each of our experiences of time
differs often, depending on, say in common-sensical
knowledge, the kind of person that you are. How do you
experience Time? Are you always in a hurry? Are you
always running behind Time? Are you always somewhere
before Time? What are the kinds of people that can afford
latitude in the ways in which they deal with Time? What
are the kinds of people to whom Time does not matter?
Think about the ubiquitous person who is always late and
takes it for granted that you will wait for them. Everybody
therefore deals with Time in a unique fashion. In our
analysis today, we are suggesting that this kind of dealing
with Time has a very specific gender element to it, that if
we try and understand it, not just in the ways in which
men deal with Time as opposed to women dealing with
Time, although there is a particular aspect of it, it is also
the other question: What kinds of demands does Time
exert upon masculine versus feminine subjects? So,
keeping these questions in mind. Let us start by talking
about, what kind of Time?
