ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in preceding chapters of this book. The book explores feminism's recent archive with the aim of considering how it might speak to contemporary desires to move beyond generational models of feminism's timing. It was compelled by a millennial moment in which the dominance of a singular model of feminism in time seemed overwhelming, despite an archive of rich feminist explorations of time's contours. The author considers how the designation of contemporary texts as resonant with queer temporality theory has the potential to erase genealogies of feminist thinking, or the queerness of feminism's temporalities. Robyn Wiegman suggests that due to feminism's own irreducibility to, yet inseparability from, situated subjects who act in its name, it is difficult being in time with feminism. The time of reading, the time of writing, the time of thinking, and the time of feminisms pasts, presents, and futures.