Feminisms Queer Temporalities McBean Sam Queen Mary University of London UKPaperback
Feminisms Queer Temporalities McBean Sam Queen Mary University of London UKPaperback Despite feminism's uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or…
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Feminisms Queer Temporalities McBean Sam Queen Mary University of London UKPaperback
Despite feminism's uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. It finds in feminism's 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 feminism's timing. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism's timing.
Through methodologically creative readings, McBean explores non-generational, anti-linear, and asynchronous time in the figure of Antigone, Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time, the film Ladies and Gentlemen: The Fabulous Stains, Valerie Solanas and SCUM Manifesto, and
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