The Birth of Time

Women's experience of time is marked by the multiple, interdependent, non-hierarchical times involved in the construction of female identity. This is, in fact, characterized by the overlapping of public and private times and by the mingling of cyclical and linear times. The specificity of this experience is clearly visible in the particular modalities of self-reflection with regard to the biographical past and also in the difficulties that accompany the female process of choice. On the basis of the findings of a 10-year research study of a qualitative nature on young people's (male and female) experience of time, this article aims to open a discussion concerning some theoretical and methodological problems relating to the way in which young women represent the past and the future.

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Gender and Temporality in Interpersonal Systems

Nadesan

1997

Symbolic Interaction

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This essay provides a nonessentializing account of how gender affects the social construction of time in communicative interactions. Niklas Luhmann's systems theory serves as the theoretical framework for explaining how time is constructed through communication codes. Using Luhmann's model, the essay argues that gender is a communication code that operates to align social participants' perspectives towards a socially constructed “present.” However, the essay notes that participants' experience of that present will be contingent upon the specific cultural and historical criteria that constitute their use of the gender code. The criteria specific to Anglo‐American culture are used to illustrate how this instanciation of the gender code might affect temporal experience.

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The Birth of Time

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Zeitpolitik und Gender: Eine zeitökologische Perspektive für die Umweltsoziologie

Zeitpolitik und Gender: Eine zeitökologische Perspektive für die Umweltsoziologie

Past and Future in Young Women's Experience of Time

Gender and Temporality in Interpersonal Systems

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