Looking at a diverse range of texts including Marilyn French's The
Women's Room, Philip Roth's Patrimony, the writings of Walter
Benjamin and Fredric Jameson, and films such as Cinema Paradiso,
Susannah Radstone argues that though time has been foregrounded in
theories of postmodernism, those theories have ignored the question
of time and sexual difference.
The Sexual Politics of Time proposes that the contemporary
western world has witnessed a shift from the age of confession to
the era of memory. In a series of chapters on confession,
nostalgia, the 'memories of boyhood' film and the memoir, Susannah
Radstone sets out to complicate this claim. Developing her argument
through psychoanalytic theory, she proposes that an attention to
time and sexual difference raises questions not only about the
analysis and characterization of texts, but also about how cultural
epochs are mapped through time.
The Sexual Politics of Time will be of interest to students and
researchers of time, memory, difference and cultural change, in
subjects such as Media and Cultural Studies, Sociology, Film
Studies.
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