Feminism, Time, and Nonlinear History [Paperback]

Interweaving phenomenological, hermeneutical, and sociopolitical analyses, this book considers the ways in which feminists conceptualize and produce the temporalities of feminism, including the time of the trace, narrative time, calendar time, and generational time.Introduction: Why Feminism Needs Alternative Concepts of Historical Time 1. Lived Time and Polytemporality 2. The Time of the Trace 3. Narrative Time 4. Calendar Time 5. Generational Time Conclusion: The Politics of Feminist Time

Victoria Brownes Feminism, Time, and Nonlinear History is part of a critical effort to think the history of feminism beyond the dominant model of an ascending series of waves. & Brownes book is a profound and innovative project. It suggests a notion of politemporality which resonates with the idea of coalitional feminist politics. Brownes analysis of time aims to implement a post-colonial and intersectional critique of western culture, and to offer a productive alternative. (Miri Rozmarin, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, Vol. 5 (04), April, 2018)

In this important book, Browne challenges feminism to think through the problem of historiography in order to better account for the 'complex coevalness' of feminism's multiplicity. By focusing on the concept of lived time, rather than, say, evolutionary or geological time, Browne provides feminist theory with a theoretically astute and generative engagement with the social and political effects of temporalization, and in so doing situates feminism's continuing political viability in the complexities of our 'shared time' with others. - Victoria Hesford, Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Stony Brook University, USA

In a profound and original argument, Browne demonstrates how philosophical assumptions about time and history have shaped feminism's traditional account of itself. In contrast to modernils'