Meredith Nash

Biography

Meredith Nash is Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change and Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Her research focuses on gender inequalities in everyday life. She is the author of Making ‘postmodern’ mothers: Pregnant embodiment, baby bumps and body image (2012), editor of Reframing Reproduction: Conceiving Gendered Experiences (2014) and co-editor of Reading Lena Dunham’s Girls: Feminism, Postfeminism, Authenticity, and Gendered Performance in Contemporary Television (2017).

Conférence : Peut-on concilier urgence et insertion ?

Paradigms of temporality and gender identity are attracting renewed critical attention. Drawing on Julia Kristeva’s seminal 1979 essay Le temps des femmes, this talk highlights feminism’s contributions to theories of temporality. Referring to current and past examples, from biological clocks to Newtonian physics to the #Metoo movement, we will address a complex set of questions about the meaning of time in feminist political and historical practices. We will analyze the impact of the use of time on the diversity of gender and sexual identities, as well as the relationship between time and gender power and how time is measured and varies culturally.