Importance of Time in the Role of Feminism Feminist Theory

We will study the importance of time in feminist theory. After that we go on to First, Second, and Third Waves of Feminism and then to larger bodies of work within which to employ concepts. Time is really interesting and to progress along the trajectory. Because Time on the face of it is such an, “objective” concept. Surely, we are not going to spoil Time with gender again? So, this is the kind of question I get all the time when I say Time. Why is it that we are looking at Time and relation to gender? And therefore, the second question always is, what kind of Time are we talking about? While Time structures all of our daily lives in a very-very obvious fashion, we all know, almost intuitively, that each of our experiences of time differs often, depending on, say in common-sensical knowledge, the kind of person that you are. How do you experience Time? Are you always in a hurry? Are you always running behind Time? Are you always somewhere before Time? What are the kinds of people that can afford latitude in the ways in which they deal with Time? What are the kinds of people to whom Time does not matter? Think about the ubiquitous person who is always late and takes it for granted that you will wait for them. Everybody therefore deals with Time in a unique fashion. In our analysis today, we are suggesting that this kind of dealing with Time has a very specific gender element to it, that if we try and understand it, not just in the ways in which men deal with Time as opposed to women dealing with Time, although there is a particular aspect of it, it is also the other question: What kinds of demands does Time exert upon masculine versus feminine subjects? So, keeping these questions in mind. Let us start by talking about, what kind of Time