Te Diino Chines rin util Dua New Dios ona Tog an Pri te ere kl, Cj Rr oa eySok Unputirun DaucuTers New Directions in Feminist Thought and Practice Baited by Henriette Gunkel, Chrysantbi Nigianni, and Fanny Siderbick palgrave macmillanSt ct mann eae iaeemet cnc seater Sie arene rest gem erat ttn onebeneeatan att ee a ee Se a Ie eienrcomeryetee cmp ny einige ntsen sgt rere create einer tcc te tea date pecan Se acy tones met ps Sac Fae, ses onto nb Sinica maninas te radmin ConrTents Serie Foreword rafse The aces of Unda Daphne Ros Braid Acknowledgments BartT Now Concepts ntioducton: A Politic of Plyphony any Siderbick 1 ‘The Future of Bennie Theory: Dress for New Knowledges laa Gace 2. The Need fr the New in Feminist Activist Discourse: [Notes Toward a Scene of Anachronism Red Chidgry {3 The Inerrptive Feminine: Aleatory Time an Feminist Patiies Enna Bianchi 4 Bediore Fate MLB Simone Roberts Part IT New Bodies and Ethics Tnesodacton: A Poe of Diplessure Conga Ngan 5 Feminist Ptinetion (Clare Colebrook 6 Hirlrofeminim: Or, On Becoming a Body of Water ‘Atrida Neimanis 1B 35 6 n a634 nevemoory 28. m. oa "We Will Wa without Fear? in Share Rib Reeder 100 Lous of ‘Wome bernie. Masia Rowe (Harnondewets: Bergan, 1982), p. 690-894. 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LetieL. Heywood, Intodaction: A Hien Yea Histor oF hi ‘Ware Kein" The Wen Aesemen Ty P38. ‘Terese Josson, “Lady, Race, aod the Pics of Coalition ulling” Race Kevl 1, ed. Huraira Saeed (Mancheser Self Pubes, 2007). 2 Ladys re stonomous a, eit, ad ‘ace eal wit a women postive al Fins fas They were ‘ee hunched In Obmpin, Washngion, in 2000, and hve ace eter Key Di Ve Serato of Cre Mewar (Minnenpli ‘Univers of Minnesota res, 2008, p= “Hluatn Sue, Race Ren (Manchater Self Pbtinbed, 2010), : Ee nce Rad Cary, “Whiteread Feminine: Dg Discos, Whats Next. Wer Wht Lt Lie Aco: “Amora apart White ions Gore ancy {Re onan London Roe, 7008p. 248262 inp, Dit Yi CHAPTER 3 ‘The Interruptive Feminine: Aleatory Time and Feminist Politics Emanuela Bianchi Do modes of gender and sexuality have atime? Or more special des it make Sense to spesk about womens time or ques time 38 different modes of lived temporality, and iso, can thinking through these temporaiesuasinate and enliven feminist politic? Feminist and queer thinkers of time have argued that near, progressive con ‘pion of lifetime and history i noc only dstinetively modern, buts ko rooted in pacarchal kinship, in malemasculine ses ofembod Jed experience, and ina pilosophical waiion that understandsitell| citer aa practice of death of rasscendental red incorporeal Sand absolute! Temporafty is at stake in numerous dimensions of out Ties: embodied, phenomenologial, frill, histories, soc 23 demic, metaphysical, and existential. None ofthese are reducble to ‘one another, yo Usy arguably form» compen in which the temp ral textures of other kins of liver women’ lve, ges Ive, non ‘Western lives, ack ives, subaern Kes, tras ves, disabled ine, oF ‘ren lives beyond the human or aimal-are often suppressed and ‘ender invisible Inthe ewentieth century, philosophers such 8 Simone de Beawoie anu ola Kristeva provided syoeabulary fo thinking temporality in sexe ated gendered tims, In The Second Ss, de Healt analyzed ‘women's time as ecial and tate entrapping worsen in che plane fof mmanence fom which they have litle aces tothe linear projects lof trantcendent subjectivity so deae to existentialism. Tn er impor ‘ant esay on feminist generations, "Women’s Time Kilstera com pleted this seine by drawing attention to certain jisnce to be34 euaouetamancsn founda inte ec a coepn wth the dyn of he ‘oumon ada by cteting ut io the Nias exegoy of mo mena tine 1 descr the temporality of woren.? Monamenta time tine atfrmed I 3H fs ne expel 0, ey the ine af the poet and tory ott of ending hy chat teen hay be called ine ll tater becomes sn $itencpousng “imaginary space” While they may offer een ing plese, hee modal of tine also sate women oubie ‘ity and police Beyond the wc sr ach, These acct Ob col dew on womens boy experinces“he ety of en Sttuaion and reprodction and their accompanying asocation ‘rth the apne of pec big, a well women's radon abot Sept, fonctional and active the everpesed tae of houakeeping, oot preparation chil eating, ang foe bois and Pryce, ng, ants on Suh location ie plaing women In cera inf we wih to flo liner projets an pipe in ble we mt take of cur expremil ect es thocations with te epic enter iat the tine of scl ir Or converse, (Fe secs wanmaustion of aie ine, We ind tha these moder thresen toed fom the arty a ttanxmatve pote of sory, entapng usin the als of {ure and the howschal, bound fo cle teporty and mons inetd ee ‘Hor | wi to move jn these potential ung bil, tecing oo an bringing imo fot rather diftet and submerged mension of tepority that has acre othe ide of wore and the queer unr Ween pathy anc metpiptr—hat wll Gal Sreopie tine lmecopei ndiates ind of bag fn Sie tat bothered iterating ins mile yoked ferulation ay be heat snatancoaly the paste cacy 20 be incrrapid aod the active ality Intrape The ssocton ‘ercpion withthe fender daerai atthe ery negion of patel metaphysics, Lvl acordogly erect fom Arte, through phenomenologes offal body experince, and then bing teint dinlopwe ith secent wor om qest temporality, conser” ing some consequence oferty fr gucer and nas pol tia. Ar Don Har bas rpc the scciaton of woe With tat ponve ln cea mite of (expel scond war) fn ‘i thovghs, exemplified by Catharine MacKinnon’ ston thst an fucks vorman; subject vr object achieves “a teaation ‘producing wha Wester pancy isel peer seceded in ding Ennis conecowmnce f the avexnense of wnneh, excep a8 ‘ewrenmrcverenne @ 97 products of mente desire Instead of countering this plane wih 2 fully legible nein (igueed in MacKinnon’s curzene wotk by a benevolent, enlightened, white, Western feminism reaching. cut 19 rescue an abject, passive, brows, non-Westea victim of trafficking”), 8 polities eognizant of an opaque and subterranean alestory iter ‘upsiriy opens ws 10 the raialy contingent possbilicy that both patiaccy andthe metaphysics chat constiutes i may—suddenly ot Slowis-—foally play chemsenes ou AnietorEtian InrERRUPTiONS ‘Asa piloropher of antiquity, Ariatote i not yet concerned with the idea of history, nor progress, nor does he conceive human subjectvigy asa project of feedom, Indeed, we might say that leis not concerned ‘with any ofthe features that are typically associated with modera Tinea tie, and howl his teleologieal word is directed toward an ‘end, is no irtorcl but metaphyeal, The heavens move fn else and the eaeth proceeds in eels, natural beings are born and grow, fan aen make chings, act inthe wot, and organize theses, al in puri of what is best: the good and the divine. Aristotle's own ‘onception of tine in the Pi a "ollowing on” fom motion? reans that tis in he accoant of motion rater than ime, and spe- ‘cally in the movement of ratual generation, that we may find the association ofthe feminine with what alae and cerupe the "unfolding of natu tleolog ‘Asis well known, for Avistote any phenomenon may be explained by recourse to four kinds of ease or explanation: mater, formal, elfen, and final? In acute, che ater thee are really the same an "ul (ale hose cases another horse to come tobe, and the acale house is also both the form and the final suse ofthe renting els development, In effec, there ae ths only to causes at ply here the material on the one haa, aa the formal/tfient Salon the ‘other, an these are apportioned to each ofthe sexes. According to the famous accouat of sexual reproduction ia Aristotle's Genersion {of Aina, the form is transmitted through the male semen, while the female contributes only mater the lisp which a¢ many feminist commentators have poate ont relegate the female © the ‘order of pure pasty. Te female conte only the mater, hile te semen proves form, ogra the spark of soo for che Dew creature. Buta dificuly in ths schema lemediaelysppes fr if the male contibues form, tow ist possible chat female ofF sing might seul, 8 deed does appesiatl hal ofthe tine?38 -© exanuntasanest Aristotle ane x that female i the seal of drtion in the proces, an error in the matter de to insficent heat, which may fccur because of some exigency sich at youth or ok! age ora wind inthe south While Arswrle normally poreays matter pasive or at best, Inclined roward fom “asthe ugly destes the beautiful, and as the ‘male desies the male)” thi secon dseloses x sbmerged feminine mately withthe capacity wo Jnterupt the smooth untoang of ‘anue’s processes The female, then, is characterized les by pas sive matriality than by matters eepressibe unless or its unae ‘countable alestory propensities, ivnblewiehin Asso’ tational rubric fhe four nists Indeed in the PP, chance and sponta: ‘ous motions in nature appear st acidental sipplements to the four ‘sential causes Tasca of being denied with nature, then, the Female isthe real of fres that act again ature wa constant inter ruption inthe natural unfolding of motion toward what i best, een though she iso course also necessary for the continaance of the spe {es In this ansene scene, then, the opposition between masculine and ferinine time is less an oppostion between linear and eeicl time (as ve modems would have lt) than one Between a continue «etc and tlelogical time that is masculine, alan aleatory snd Ineerupeive time marked a feminine want to suggest that retscving this ancient aetculation of the feminine as seatory may be a fl geuae for contemporary fe nist polities Although radial epochal shifishave occurred sinceantig sity in everything om formtions of pectoniood an pois He ‘ery outlines ofthe cosmes, the alent assocation ofthe feminine ‘wth pasty and the marcline with wt i actie fil very mish nse in ou conemporacy world, pessing even in contemporary acount ofthe biology of sexual reproduction At the time of wie ing, Tam listening to neva reports of the death of Osama bin Laden The fest pres lease by John Breaman, the White Howse coun tertertorim clef, annoutced that bin Laden had used be wile a4 Jnuman shill ante, asa consequence, ad been kiled—a tory cage embraced bya publi inene on envisioning the lst moments ‘of amisogynis Islamic monster, The nextday, White House pokes pero Jay Carney said tat bn Laden's wife had rushed the avading fommandos and was shot in the leg, but war lave. Tie worth ‘wondering how the almost unimagitaby courageous action of this "unnamed woman-—swerving in aif from nowhere lke Lucretius, ‘dinamen,rading the comwandes—becare 20 quickly reformed ts mute pusiviry, how she Was 50 quickly reduced fo a abject, to sunnvremornverenanane 39 and obstacles shield—in scene of action that can and mst take [act between men alone Ifthe doninane modemn construction of Fempoalty fs shifted otha of liner historia progres, contend that thi ancient notion ofan alatry feminine fers + nonessental temporal, phenomenological, ethical, and poical modality that sup Plea vialy necessary resitance to tha macaline arate ‘While Tam svare of the theoretical ca involved in the eliion ofa clea diinetion besveen “female,” “women,” and the fer fine,” Tan interested in a certain metaphyseal complex chey Foun, meddle inthe procrstem bie of philosophical and ele Inheritance, of which pasty isthe most resounding eluracterisic ‘Women may be more ores feminine, an indeed more ores female, ain yet they, wey ae incluctably caught up in nd Gourd to negotiate 1 sex/gender complex framed bya patitchal metapysics that posits 4 dualism between activity and pasvy. The aleatory fern Lam ‘culating here is an intervention ino that ancient, pessene meta Physics, and in fice grows out of are monstrous, quer symptom, "uning the godess Fort ad the ntrruptive forces of Dionyrat fora poles tht strenuous resists even the possiblity of fied iden ‘iy and essence. After lit wha is found a the level of nature is no longer what i nil tempore monumental, frozen, exert, pave, snd fsed then what Souad in the peehe, and in sol, pola, fare philoophical dimensions, can hardly be feed either The arg ment here tox qite analogies}, and not gate ena, aed noe que ‘organic The clam is ater that a cilfrent levee of magnification tel temporal duration, each with is own formations, asenblages, dud topograpies, che slestoey and the lnteruptve i at woek, and may be haenested fr feminist end Ierennurrn Bopies egianing with the regine of materiality and corpora, tis worth noticing that we encounter inerraption ae an insistent trope at the lorl of female bodily experience, The womans menstrual le nok fapetenced asa comtinaous ey, but aa punctuation tha inter ups er daily activites with mesy blood flow and somecines pain fad carping. In penetative intercourse, the very bouedary of the ‘ody i incrapte Ifa woman becomes pregnant her rey being flther interrupted by the new presence. Lobe miscatrie, that inter ruption is isl inerrupted I she breastfeed chil the hunger of ‘nother being interrupt er bodily integrity and he itclly, mates ally lows out of hers becoming fod and nourishment for nother,‘As primary caretaker, she x continually inteeuptd by the vais land more or ea immeite demande for watenance ad tention by those ae cre fon” Ta hier clsie second wave esay “Throwing Like 2 Git Iie ‘Maron Young describes the inibiions and discontinuities ha beset the git in her movement throngh the worl the git fn that, for ‘example, she cannot tech the apple up inthe tree, so she doe not ‘realy jump fort he ivenness by immanence andthe weigh drag ‘of objecthood continually thivart her in er projects, undexmining her motility snd hee abit to make the space around her her ov Heerawateness of hee materiality as suc a well a her subjection > the gize ofthe oher, experince as interruption of liner tase tory tomar goal Yer in electing upon that essay 20 year lates, ‘Young i rte! of her own acceptance ofthe specific temporality ofthe linea project 25 universal, and the examples of “port, labor, fd travel” a paradigms of free movement She ake us to con ‘ier Tile Olen character canning tomatoe while minding» baby, ominenting; “The movement i plal and engaged, to and fr, here tnd yonder rather chan waified an singly cect In Pregnant Embosliment,” Young tranctalaethe impostions of maternity, ew ing the les a weighty immanenc than sn oftentimes pleardable ‘Ac wih ed lieing to on in dhe bt wikia te the iking othe feu aif ir the sth fe ue Tatendings my pregnant body insu ccuatancs, {do aot el nye inted om sine merely tice bore nd unlings with oes sometime with plese, ae ett Itsret docs noe dvr ne om my hese “These shythms ofthe mateal boy certainly esate with Klee secount ofthe semi charethe dimension of the matt, cyte Ini leasarabe deve ha inabelanguage Mei! with the space (OF the mother's worb-—bur in this ey, Young rather connects ‘movemeat in pregnancy with a spatial avaresesexanating fom the body, and witha mode a mot thats decidedly not nar, rately dbaclng. In dance—especialy in improvisational dance -anovetent 5s ambiguously active and patsive ar one altenatly reeponds 0 and Antipates the musi, creting a flow of hythm and syncopation {hat is aot known or eoeivel jn advance. Does misc even ound sore generally, or perhape any sense experience, sand bere i the face OF longer Other tht would interupe the monotony of rimemremoerve sean © 41 posive Femininisy? Or does i sigify a move primordial enmedh tent inthe workt—a sens, comporeel immersion bepinaing with the iambic materal heartbeat, nd ith which we theratee fine ‘ursehves entangled in sensorimotor relations of call and response, ‘al-rexponse, anticipation, lay, an ineruption?™ ‘Assocating 4 phenomssology of women's Dodily comportment, aunt expecially pregnant embodiment, wth the sestory qualities of ‘hace, crmeshment in sound, au the improvisational space of the jane club Young’ native takes us fr from reading of feniaine orporealty a passive and interrupted by a transcendent exteriocty, ental an undestanding of thir bodily experience as intenuptv From Feminine Tate 70 (Queee/Fesunist Tine ‘his interuptvity Tam locating om the side ofthe Feminine albeit strategically sd provisionally) ko brings as eloser to the ie temporlities of queer subject. Qucertheoras auch as Elizabeth Freeman ae Judith Hallirstam ave argued compelingly fora sb stant phenomenological ference in the way tne Is structured, ‘iperenced, and crested in quer lives and texts. Freeman describes Fao eceminglyinnocious phenomens auch a chedeles, calendar, time zone, an even Wentatces function asa kind of Fouealan “plantation? granting what she calle “chrononormativity” snd sppeating to give "natura” sense of me while regulating popu tina and individeale* Halborstam argues that the experience and logic of ied temporality in te hegeroni, hetexnostative mode srestructcd fit and fremos bythe whedling demand off tun! are governed by certain belief shout cikeaing,geaerational ‘eles of inertance, the wok ethic and demands of the workweek, swage Isbor, an capitalist seumalaton. She contrat this "straight time” with the time of ettain modes of Hie on the margins expert fenced By gusts, but also Savers, lub kid THIV- pone bareback fs, ret boys sex workers, honlss peop, drug dealers, and the ‘unenplayed”—all cf whom se inchs ss Squeee subjects” whose Experience ofan slatonship to temporality ead, qualitatively steals with staight Hie2® Queer temporality veer aay fom not Irate ine in unpeedictble ways The quer epaces ofthe nightelab land the bathour, the Garand certain areas ofthe pa, come alive when good children ae sping, and are experienced under a cif Feceat sort of tempor lopic-—an unaccountable sd died time, often altered by drug and alco, whee watches are not consalted2 © emasumantaci sd whose narratives ae sculpted chrough fantastical and. gender configuring peforances, the sill oF the DJ, nd the danee ofthe hhookup, Sach practices of etical opennes to the aleatory encounter, With cir intensification of pleasures and dangers, and eeir stark ‘contrast with the times and ehythims of heterenaemativereproducti¢ i hae been assiduously theorized by Lee Edelman and other pling a necessary accession to the death dive" nthe fice af Ut may seem perverse to angie Ut pregnancy and mothechood share in this quete temporal quay: However, ab Freeman argues, his queceeemporaity i not simply time ofthe new and different, of open ertie countemoematnty pesed avay fom the eproductve imperative. Ter rater weighed down?” by = cca history, whether tha ofthe queer achive or of eta Bild political projets such asthe Equal Rights Amendenent campaign Of the 1970s,” or by a faintly embarasing second wave esis Femtaise past characterized by a siing erentinlism, for which 4 ‘repesitiecjlcty or even mumentalty in Kester sense Was the _poteming temporal schema, Freeman compistes the queer emp ‘ton the countenormative, the aestry and the new with what she ‘alls “temporal drag”—a quer engagement witha sometimes ban torlove past whose tangencies may also be erotic and afectie—a ‘queer past with which quer subjets ae necessarily entangled, and ‘Which thereby necesally conditions queer prevents ad fate" ‘While Tam not concezned ete withthe specie practice of queer history, foegrounding a relation to the pot o pasts nonetheless ental my formulation of interrupt isola itadvoeate and alto enacts a certain “working throu of putas legacy i wich We ate seemingly seeatlessly mized. Such working Uooug Fequires the painstaking work of tatrying with what drags us dowa and lds us bac, wih what repeat as wel as with what ifr tent and new, The radcelity ofthis opennes, shat of alestry tater upvc, ethat te nether simply 28 openness o libidinal drive toad lif, love, production, or reproduction, no quer accession to the death dive whether figured stase or destrction, Rather, the aleatory rll of the die is embedded in 4 conten that it iter” ‘pt, vig unpredictable oateomes: lve if anor death This, fn tain, should alert us cote possibility that this mode of being ‘nay not, in Tat, be sasteable withoot certain base protections “Living this interrupt i lo t ive with a certain vulnerability: ‘one ay be easly brutalized through abuses of hospitality, be sub jected to sggresion by those threatened by this most courage mode of being, be instrusentlized by stat aed biopolial Frcs, ‘uenvregrurnverenanine 45 and soon” Any formulation of womes's ine as iteruptvity must fake into account the necesity for protecting sgalnst hostile and ‘unwanted inestuptions aswell 1 promoting a Hberatory transratae os of interapced tne as mode of living i pecan openness ‘to whats aletory, and to strange, ne, queer formations of Kinship, ‘Bede, ad socal Me. "Women’s characteristic capacity to be inttruped, bythe demande ‘offal, by prea, in thei labora aregvers ad = manages of| Inuman relations, and 2 exible and often home-based labor fore, ‘requires specific theoretical and legal measures to provide degree (of protection against expotation Here we might urfelly ten to Dells Cornells conception ofthe imaginary dom a esousce tac resonates in the sphere of interpersonal ethics as wel that of political ontology and egal sights Cornell formulated this notion In order wo artculte «minimalist legal standard thst would protect ‘women from nwt encroachments in slation to abortion sex hnaassment, an porography, eating a zone in which they would be ee to imagine chemselresas whole and integra. She deawscn the Psychoanal notion ofthe imaginary asa fantasized, tempore bodily boundary: bodily itary and indvidaation grounded not by econse toa pss, a history, or an ontologies preset, but by appeal fo the temporsity ofthe fate anterior the tense ofthe “shall hive been.” The imaginary doesnt deny the alestory a2 ft, mate dimension of eorporeality and lived temporality. According to this analysis, the bounded and enclosed body, uniateeypted, fe always ‘mater of fantasy unachieable inthe here and now ae therefore sta fatural and projective. But foe Coenel’s pychoanalyieally ‘nuanced argument, the protection of this imaginary domain must be ‘onsideced a leplright, sce despite is faturl and faneaszed stats, ie tnethelee fanetions in personal deslopmnet asa minim con scion for individuation and chus personhood. Is order to become 4 patios, one mart have acess toa vison of oneself ae being fee om Inmerupcion and encroachment with ight t bodily integety, and the right to thst projective vision mur be publicly recognized and protected under tel Developing feminist conception of being as interuptve thus requires 4 famewark or fieedom fom interruption, But it also fxm a poseble ground for a mode of Feminist politics that is ne ther simply reactive, nor simply exlausted by the protection of one's bility t9 pen and close one's boy boundary a wil The ater ruptveis ae that which dupes, singly beesse tha i par of what fc means to eon intimate etme with the aeatry encour, and4 ® sxasuetastinc ‘hi incraptvity thas reveals the precaity of the existing (hetero potato, white-supremacis, capitalist) dee. This amalgis ths points tore a ferinism tha would us toward commandos fom nowhere, that would take to the tees, at would-—in the words of ‘queercore singe Lynn Bredlove—"unieash the teenage boy within” ‘ras Twter sensation Feminist Hulk puss smash paarey, smash gener binary" and the woud ise up, bargeon and celebrate ‘with an eje to nether origin ao cee, bu wih humor, gil, and a Iealthy disrespect for authority. ‘The roueh remarked-upon presence ‘of women in the uprisings in the Arab Spring of 201; the visi of ‘wornen daring antients protests Brain in 2010 aed 2011; an the ‘Shuewalk protests mushrooming actos the United Stats, Canada, and Burope atthe time of wtng al testify to this iteraptive and eatoty fein pi. Ttetruptivit revels in corporealty, sensation, ply, and sexuality. Te ins sermons setity that i also alvapesexponive--mctor and seasory—and this ecepie/crentve capa i tel ot something 'haceverwaysin one pace. Inallis openness and moti, therially ‘ountermormative force of alestoryintnruptivty cannot ukimately fustain or retain its articltion with what is speically fersinine Tnttraptivity counteances all posites all reconigurations of past and present creumstanees, eluding queer and transgender configurations of gender and Sex. Tntemupivity i as mach ans and intersex a itis feminine; is necessarily open co differences ddiferencea in etabodiment and circumstance) anong and between ‘women and ques, or indeed anjone, male ofa, interes oF trans bodied who ie commited to challenging fried, exeatia ined, and teleologicalyegoic modes of subjecrivity and social Starting from a feminine conesption of teiporaly a intereup- tive thus opens to an understanding of the opaque inteupiity of being as such? The retlns encounter and negotiation with wists extevoewecoming, incorporating, hosting, and shutting ou, fom ‘omen to moment growing into whatever iti hat we are in the process of becoming—rmust take place without forgecting tat the Fuelcome” ir alto always a contextualized. performative at, Ident with a past fut never simply a mater of fetal pase. With mini ‘mal conditions in place seestings women from the travail of inter tion, bu not jeetzoning it value ae an operas to the unexpected {encounter we az eed up co imagine and enact other modalities of lived temporality beyond the dichotomies of feminine and sata, quer and straight: toward generative, prota, and a yet unthought temporal to come ‘muonremurnvermanne © 45 Noves Obriowly ths enon of dominant is scat a ico ‘sonar ec complx philooptical underondingso istry ‘na eprops way af being ted he ata ‘hat might ince decal meron, Mesanin opie, Heeger temporal sty ening the Dees en tnd ab en, Whle space contains prevent yang ay of ‘hese conceptions dre in this paper, the cca T deep ete ta Sancti abate! engagement wih nove om 2, Simone de Beant, le Seed Se, tena. 1. M. Ply (New ‘York: Vintage Hooks, 1973). T cote with de Bearers univer. ‘alin, Dana Licino Arrnging Gre Saeed Time wn he Boy fn Nine Conon Amerie (New ork Mew York Univer Pres 2007) wae thiespurion of enporl pc since ‘enacy US bourgens ctr While I sekndedge the htc ‘pect of ese temporal fstonyLesplre he bese ne ‘lope and pletomcealoga! dimensions suing te {hough not uneral see of erative ccencimers Julia Kester, Womens Tie” in he Frele Krite.Klly ‘Oe (New York: Cotunbia Unies Fr, 2002), op. 381-971 Tp 384, thine A, MacKinnon, ena a Homie Tory of the Sine (Gamrdge MA Harard Universy Pres 1989), p13 Donna J. Haraway, "A Cyborg Maniflst: Scene, Technology, and Socialis Feminam nthe Late Tweets Cena” eh. I ‘Simian Chg and Womens Te Rlnontion of Nae (Sow Yok Rowlige, 99D p 188. See Catharine A MacKinnon, Are Women Hand: And Oter Intrnatina Dinky (Cassie, MA Hacat Uni Pes, 2006) For the idea ance se Gli Ser Worer Rights Rasen ‘and Reino, el. Kamls Kempton an Jo Doce (ew foak {nd Lamon: Rowe, 198) a flaring oir ‘soe Mes ane lip. 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