Feminism's Queer Temporalities [Hardcover]

Despite feminisms uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalitiesbuilds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminisms timing. It finds in feminisms literary and cultural archive narratives of temporality that might now be diagnosed as queer, where queer designates modes of being historical that exceed the linear and the generational.

Few theorists have looked to popular feminist figures, literature, and culture to theorize feminisms timing. Through methodologically creative readings, McBean explores non-generational, anti-linear, and asynchronous time in the figure of Antigone, Marge Piercys Woman on the Edge of Time, the film Ladies and Gentlemen: The Fabulous Stains, Valerie Solanas and SCUM Manifesto, and Alison Bechdels Fun Home.

The first to substantially bring together the ways in which time has come to matter in both feminist and queer disciplines, this book will appeal to students and scholars of feminist, queer and gender studies, cultural studies and literary studies.

Introduction.  1. Dragging the Not-Yet: Archiving Antigone  2. Loss and Futurity: Marge Piercys Woman on the Edge of Time  3. Im a Waste of Time: Riot Grrrl and Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains  4. The Feminist Manifesto: Valerie Solanas and SCUM  5. Learning to See: Alison Bechdel's Fun Home.  Conclusion.  Bibliography

Sam McBeanis Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary American Literature at Queen Mary University of London. She has published on contemporary literature, new media, queer theory, and feminist theory in journals including Feminist Review, l³)