Abstract
This essay urges transnational feminist scholarship and pedagogy to move beyond gender as a social, discursive construct and conceptualize it instead as lived temporality of the body. Through a phenomenological reading of the lives of three cis-gendered female teachers in future-oriented neoliberal school regimes in India and Turkey, it shows how normative ‘gender’ is the sedimentation of histories of race and nation and past traumas that is reproduced through bodies, while we remain oblivious to those histories. At the same time, bodies also occasionally rupture lived time or normative performances of gender by desiring love, beauty and reminiscing times past. A transnational analysis of gendered embodiment and temporality grounded in specific histories and the similarities between how bodies across nations break away from norms in their desires for love and life, reveal alternate transnational politics and possibilities around gender that center sensuality, unruliness and ambiguity.
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