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We all stand on the shoulders of giants, and Woolf brings to our attention the differential distribution of time: “we have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are according to statistics, at present in existence and that, allowing that some had help, takes time.”1 A complex pattern of diverse priorities, rhythms, and time scales expresses not only “the tension and strain between competing ways of ordering and living lives”2 but also the differential distribution of roles and expenditure associated with those roles. Time is the organizing motif for Julia Kristeva’s essay “Women’s Time.” Situating the problem of women in Europe within an inquiry on time, a time that the feminist movement both inherits and modifies, Kristeva argues that “the feminine” is too often associated with the space of generation and production rather than with the time of becoming and history. Thus, for Elizabeth Grosz, the attempt to reconsider our concept of time will lead to new concepts of nature, culture, and subjectivity.
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Virginia Woolf, “A Room of One’s Own,” in Selected Works (London: Wordsworth, 2005), 632.
Sylvia Walby, Gender Transformations (London and New York: Routledge, 1997), 9.
David Harvey, Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1996), 227.
Ruth Fincher, “Space, Gender and Institutions,” Gender, Place and Culture 14, 1 (2007): 8.
M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Mohanty, “introduction” to Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies and Democratic Futures, ed. Alexander and Mohanty (New York and London: Routledge, 1997), xix.
Raymond Williams, Resources of Hope (London: Verso, 1989), 242–243, 249.
David Harvey, “Militant Particularism and Global Ambition: The Conceptual Politics of Place, Space and Environment in the Work of Raymond Williams,” Social Text 42 (1995): 69–72.
See David Featherstone, “Towards the Relational Construction of Militant Particularisms: Or Why the Geographies of Past Struggles Matter for Resistance to Neoliberal Globalisation,” Antipode (2005): 250–271.
“Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negro Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the Twenty First Century?” Rethinking Marxism 13, 3–4 (2001): 198.
See Stephanie Gilmore, Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008).
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Howie, G. (2010). Conclusion. In: Between Feminism and Materialism. Breaking Feminist Waves. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230113435_10
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