When Time Warps

Megan Burke is assistant professor of philosophy at Sonoma State. Their work has appeared in Hypatia, philoSOPHIA, and Feminist Theory.

• ContentsIntroduction. “You Rape Our Women”: Rethinking Gender, Race, and RapePrologue1. Toward a Feminist Phenomenology of Temporality and Feminine ExistenceI. The Past2. Sexualized Racism and the Politics of Time3. Beware of Strangers! White Rape Myths and Lived GenderII. The Present4. Anonymity and the Temporality of Normative Gender5. Specters of ViolenceIII. The Future6. Feminist Politics and the Difference of TimeAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"Megan Burke’s strikingly original and compelling analysis lays bare the complex ways that temporality, the threat of sexual violence, and white supremacy work in concert to shape feminine subjectivity. This is critical phenomenology at its best: intersectional, unflinching, revelatory."-Ann Cahill, Elon University"Megan Burke diagnoses the ‘sexualized racism’ through which white womanhood is consolidated and reads normative femininity as the product of violence that is experienced physically, spectrally, and existentially. Carefully training our attention on temporality, ‘chrononormativity,’ and the lived experience of gendered and racialized embodiment, When Time Warps is a valuable addition to the growing body of literature in critical phenomenology."-Gayle Salamon, author of The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia"Burke... sets forth a new direction for feminist phenomenology by focusing on the sexualized racism, temporality, and chrononormativity of sexual violence."-CHOICE"When Time Warps reveals how past rape myths haunt and animate our private and public safety protocols, offering a sobering account of how our mundane habits of gender contribute to American gun culture and undermine our freedom." -Radical Philosophy Review