Week 3: Temporality in Gender Studies (Clare Hemmings) This session explores the issue of chronology in gender studies, highlighting

both the emergence of the field in different contexts, and the problems associated with how we tell that history, particularly the relationship between time and space or place. These issues are discussed with reference to debates about the proper name of the field (gender, womens, feminist studies?), debates about postfeminism and to the relationship between temporality and geography. Key Readings: Julia Kristeva (1981/1986) Womens Time, in T. Moi (ed), The Kristeva Reader. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, pp. 187-214. Recommended Reading: Rita Felski (2002) Telling Time in Feminist Theory. Special Issue: Feminism and Time. Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature. 21. 1: 21-28. Clare Hemmings (2006) The Life and Times of Academic Feminism: Checking the Vital Signs of Womens and Gender Studies, in Kathy Davis and Mary Evans, eds, The Handbook of Womens and Gender Studies. London: Sage, pp.14-34. Angela McRobbie (2008) The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change. London: Sage. [particularly early chapters] Uma Narayan (2000) Essence of Culture and a Sense of History: a Feminist Critique of Cultural Essentialism, in Decentering the Center: 80-100. HQ1190 D29 Judith Roof (1997) Generational Difficulties, or, the Fear of a Barren History Loosner, D and Kaplan, E A, eds Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 69-87. Robyn Wiegman (2000) Feminisms Apocalyptic Futures. New Literary History: a Journal of Theory and Interpretation. 31. 4: 805-825. Further Reading: Lisa Adkins (2004) Passing On Feminism: from Consciousness to Reflexivity? European Journal of Womens Studies. 11: 427-444. Alexander, MJ and Mohanty, CT (1997) Introduction: Genealogies, Legacies, Movements. In M. Jacqui Alexander and Mohanty, CT, eds, Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures. New York: Routledge: xiii-xl. HQ1870.9 F32 Ann Braithwaite (2008) The Personal, the Political: Third-Wave and Post-Feminisms, Feminist Theory. 3.3.: 335-344. Judith Butler (2008) Sexual Politics, Torture, and Secular Time British Journal of Sociology. 59.1 1-23 [and responses] Drucilla Cornell (2002) Between Women and Generations: Legacies of Dignity. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. Estelle Freedman (2000) Packing History, Count(er)ing Generations, New Literary History. 31. 4: 727-744.

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Elizabeth Grosz (2002) Special Issue: Feminism and Time. Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature. 21. 1. Harding,S (2000) Gender, Development, and Post-Enlightenment Philosophies of Science. in Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Multicultural, Postcolonial, and Feminist World Indiana University Press: 240-261. HQ1190 D29 Clare Hemmings (2005) Telling Feminist Stories. Feminist Theory. 6. 2: 115-139. Astrid Henry (2004) Not My Mother's Sister: Generational Conflict and Third-wave Feminism. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press. rene hoogland, Petra de Vries, Iris van der Tuin (2002) Open Forum: Feminist Theory in Intergenerational Perspectives, European Journal of Womens Studies. 11. 4: 461-472 E. Ann Kaplan (1997) Introduction 2: Feminism, Ageing and Changing Paradigms, Loosner, D and Kaplan, E A, eds Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 13-30. Elizabeth McMahon (2005) 'Puberty Blues' Takes Feminist Generationalism to the Beach, Australian Feminist Studies. 20. 48: 281-289. Elspeth Probyn (1998) Re: Generation - Women's Studies and the Disciplining of Ressentiment, Australian Feminist Studies. 13. 27: 129-136. Joan Tronto (2003) Times Place, Feminist Theory. 4. 2: 119-138. Iris van der Tuin (2009) Jumping Generations: on Second- and Third-Wave Feminist Epistemology, Australian Feminist Studies. 24. 59: 17-31. [and whole special issue]

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