Time Binds
Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories

A work of queer theory focusing on the relationship between pleasure and time

Central to Freeman's argument are the concepts of chrono-normativity, the use of time to organize individual human bodies toward maximum productivity; temporal drag, the visceral pull of the past on the supposedly revolutionary present; and eroto-historiography, the conscious use of the body as a channel for and means of understanding the past. Time Binds emphasizes the critique of temporality and history as crucial to queer politics.

Acknowledgments Introduction: Queer and Not Now
1. Junk Inheritances, Bad Timing: Familial Arrhythmia in Three Working-Class Dyke Narratives
2. Deep Lez: Temporal Drag and the Specters of Feminism
3. Time Binds, or, Erotohistoriography
4. Turn the Beat Around: Sadomasochism, Temporality, History
Coda Appendix: Distributors for Films and Videos
Notes
Bibliography
Index