About Time,
Tuesday 18th, October

Feminism and Time: A Reading Group

Please join us for a reading group where we will read and discuss together Julia Kristeva’s important essay ‘Women’s Time’ (1981), as well as reflect on the question of time and feminism more broadly in the context of the About Time programme. In particular we will look at two examples of feminist counter cinema that offer a representation of time on screen, Sally Potter’s Orlando (1992) and Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman 23 Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (1975).

In her important and prescient essay ‘Women’s Time’ Bulgarian-French feminist theorist Julia Kristeva outlines how, in Western Culture, masculinity and femininity have been aligned with strikingly different notions of time. The essay also considers three different attitudes of European feminist movements (the so-called First Wave, Second Wave and Third Wave) toward a masculine conception of linear time and history.

For copies of Julia Kristeva’s essay ‘Women’s Time’ please email Elspeth Mitchell ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>)