ABSTRACT
After reading Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time, the author strengthened her resolve not to wear a watch. What was once a lazy attitude towards shopping for a new one has subsequently, over the past decade or so, become a mild form of conscientious objection towards the tyranny of clock time. Time is, of course, a feminist issue. Given the demands of the typical day, the only time she carve out for herself tends to be pre-dawn: her writing and thinking time happens while the house is asleep, in the dark. Exploring feminist thought through the prism of time will also hopefully draw out alternative perspectives to the more geographically oriented North American vs European perspectives on feminist scholarship. Feminist film and literary theories became particularly compelling because the psychoanalytic theory within much of it was difficult but fascinating.
