Feminism's Queer Temporalities

Sam McBean

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781138485006
• eBook ISBN: 9781317643906
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

Despite feminism's uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism's timing. 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. 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 Alison Bechdel's 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halt Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. Dragging the not-yet: archiving Antigone
• 2. Loss and futurity: Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time
• 3. ‘I’m 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
• Index