‘What does it mean to introduce time into thought? Bergson formulated this question in the nineteenth century; Deleuze took it up again in postwar France. In her philosophical travels through legal studies, new technologies, and debates in Darwinism, Elizabeth Grosz brilliantly pursues its punch for us today: What would it mean for feminism to include an evolutionary materialism of time, and what would it mean for it to become an ineliminable part of a “new Bergsonism” of the twenty-first century?’ John Rajchman, author of The Deleuze Connections
TIME
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Feminism, Nature, Power
ELIZABETH GROSZ
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1
PART I. NATURE, CULTURE, AND THE FUTURE
1. Darwin and Feminism: Preliminary Investigations into a Possible Alliance 13 2. Darwin and th