Afterword: histories of women’s higher education, time, and temporalities
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Joyce Goodman [1]
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[1] University of Winchester
University of Winchester
Winchester District, Reino Unido
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- Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 56, Nº. 6, 2020 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Breaking boundaries: Women in higher education), págs. 847-856
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The Afterword focuses on the question of time and the temporalities, rhythms, and tempos that thread through the special issue and shed light on change, contingency, and continuity as women sought to become and to be academics and to belong in the academy. I deploy a notion of multiple temporalities in which time comprises both a singular whole and specific fragments that flow with varying speeds and intensities to constitute what Suzanne Langer terms the volume of time. The discussion attends to two aspects of temporality that Elizabeth Grosz argues are important for understanding the production of conceivable futures: (1) inventing new ways of addressing and opening up new types of subjectivity and new relations between subjects and objects; and (2) understanding and addressing the force of the past and the present in attempting to pre-apprehend and control the new
