Reviews:
“Megan Burke’s
strikingly original and compelling analysis lays bare the complex ways that
temporality, the threat of sexual violence, and white supremacy work in concert
to shape feminine subjectivity. This is critical phenomenology at its best:
intersectional, unflinching, revelatory.”
—Ann Cahill,
Elon University
“Megan Burke diagnoses
the ‘sexualized racism’ through which white womanhood is consolidated and reads
normative femininity as the product of violence that is experienced physically,
spectrally, and existentially. Carefully training our attention on temporality,
‘chrononormativity,’ and the lived experience of gendered and racialized
embodiment, When Time Warps is a valuable addition to the growing body
of literature in critical phenomenology.”
—Gayle Salamon,
author of The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of
Transphobia
Description:
An
inquiry into the phenomenology of “woman” based in the relationship between
lived time and sexual violence
Feminist
phenomenologists have long understood a woman’s life as inhibited, confined,
and constrained by sexual violence. In this important inquiry, author Megan
Burke both builds and expands on this legacy by examining the production of
normative womanhood through racist tropes and colonial domination. Ultimately,
Burke charts a new feminist phenomenology based in the relationship between
lived time and sexual violence.
By
focusing on time instead of space, When Time Warps places sexualized
racism at the center of the way “woman” is lived. Burke transports questions of
time and gender outside the realm of the historical, making provocative new
insights into how gendered individuals live time, and how their temporal
existence is changed through particular experiences.
Providing
a potent reexamination of the theory of Simone de Beauvoir—while also bringing
to the fore important women of color theorists and engaging in the temporal
aspects of #MeToo—When Time Warps makes a necessary, lasting
contribution to our understanding of gender, race, and sexual violence.
Contents:
Introduction.
“You Rape Our Women”: Rethinking Gender, Race, and Rape
Prologue
Chapter 1. Toward a Feminist
Phenomenology of Temporality and Feminine Existence
Part I. The Past
Chapter 2. Sexualized Racism and the
Politics of Time
Chapter 3. Beware of Strangers! White
Rape Myths and Lived Gender
Part II. The Present
Chapter 4. Anonymity and the
Temporality of Normative Gender
Chapter 5. Specters of Violence
Part III. The Future
Chapter 6. Feminist Politics and the
Difference of Time
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author:
Megan Burke is assistant professor of
philosophy at Sonoma State. Their work has appeared in Hypatia, philoSOPHIA,
and Feminist Theory.
Target Audience:
This
book is a must-read for people interested in theory and philosophy and feminist
phenonenology based in the relationship between lived time and sexual violence.