Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Part I. Why Time?
Introduction: Time for Change
French Feminism and the Problem of Time
On Time and Change
Decolonial and Queer Critiques of Time
A Note on Language

Part II. Revolutionary Time
1. Linear Time, Cyclical Time, Revolutionary Time
From Beauvoir's Sexual Division of Temporal Labor to Revolutionary Time
Three Temporal Models, Three Feminist Waves
Kristeva and Irigaray on Time and Difference
Conclusion
2. Alterity and Alteration
Time, Change, and Sexuate Difference
Remaking Immanence and Transcendence
Mimesis, Imitation, and Strategic Displacement
Conclusion
3. Revolutionizing Time
Returning to the Body . . . and the Soul
Intimate Revolt: The Time of Psychoanalysis
Re-Membering the Past: Memorial Art
Conclusion

Part III. The Present
4. The Problem of the Present
Metaphysical Presence
Metaphysical Absence
To Be Finite Is to Have Been Born
Conclusion
5. Temporalizing the Present
Breathing Life into Presence: The Praxis of Yoga and Pranayama
(Re)presenting Becoming: Poetry as a Practice of Presencing
Time for Love: Presence as Co-presence
Conclusion
6. An Ethics of Temporal Difference
On the Propriety of Self and Other
Becoming Two: Encountering the Stranger Within
(Un)Timely Revolutions: The Timelessness of the Unconscious
Conclusion

Part IV. The Past
7. Returning to the Maternal Body
Feminism and Motherhood
Mothers Lost: Matricide
Other Mothers: A Colonial Maternal Continent
Conclusion
8. Motherhood According to Kristeva
Plato's Cho¯ra Revisited: Receptacle or Revolutionary?
Flesh Flash: On Time and Motherhood
Temporalizing Mat(t)er: On the Interdependence Between Semiotic and Symbolic
Conclusion
9. Motherhood According to Irigaray
Plato's Cave Revisited: An Impossible Metaphor
The Substitution of Origins for Beginnings
Mother Lost, Time Lost
Conclusion

Part V. The Future
A Non-Conclusive Conclusion: New Beginnings
Suspended Time, Foreclosed Futures
Arendt and the Unpredictability of the Future
New Beginnings
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Fanny Söderbäck is Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. She is the coeditor (with Henriette Gunkel and Chrysanthi Nigianni) of Undutiful Daughters: New Directions in Feminist Thought and Practice and the editor of Feminist Readings of Antigone, also published by SUNY Press.