Time in Feminist Phenomenology

The contributors to this international volume take up questions about a phenomenology of time that begins with and attunes to gender issues. Themes such as feminist conceptions of time, change and becoming, the body and identity, memory and modes of experience, and the relevance of time as a moral and political question, shape Time in Feminist Phenomenology and allow readers to explore connections between feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and time. With its insistence on the importance of gender experience to the experience of time, this volume is a welcome opening to new and critical thinking about being, knowledge, aesthetics, and ethics.

"By bringing phenomenological and feminist perspectives to bear, this collection of essays brings together two fields that have not been sufficiently articulated together." --Alia Al-Saji, McGill University

"Reckons with temporality and gendering in a careful and original way." --Ellen Feder, American University Indiana University Press Indiana University Press

Christina Schües teaches philosophy at the University of Lübeck.

Dorothea E. Olkowski is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Helen A. Fielding teaches philosophy at the University of Western Ontario.

1. Introduction: Toward a Feminist Phenomenology of Time / Christina Schües

2. Prologue: The Origin of Time, the Origin of Philosophy / Dorothea Olkowski

Part 1. Methodological Considerations and the Body

3. Personality, Anonymity, and Sexual Difference: The Temporal Formation of the Transcendental Ego / Sara Heinämaa

4. The Power of Time: Temporal Experiences and A-temporal Thinking? / Christina Schües

5. Gender and Anonymous Temporality / Silvia Stoller

6. Gendering Embodied Memory / Linda Fisher

7. The Time of the Self: A Feminist Reflection on Ricoeur's Notion of Narrative Identity / Annemie Halsema

Part 2. Ethical and Political Perspectives on Time

8. Contingency, Newness, and Freedom: Arendt's Recovery of the Temporal Condition of Politics / Veronica Vasterling

9. Questioning "Homeland" through Yael Bartana's Wild Seeds / Helen A. Fielding

10. Sharing Time across Unshared Horizons / Gail Weiss

List of Contributors

Index