Publications
Books
Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge
Cressida J. Heyes | Duke University Press, 2020
“Experience” is a thoroughly political category, a social and historical product not authored by any individual. At the same time, “the personal is political,” and one's own lived experience is an important epistemic resource.
Read a new open-access symposium on the book in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly!
Critical Concepts: Gender and Philosophy (volumes I-IV)
Cressida J. Heyes, ed. | Routledge, 2011
How are ‘philosophy’ and ‘gender’ implicated? Throughout history, philosophers—mostly men, though with more women among their number than is sometimes supposed—have often sought to specify and justify the proper roles of women and men, and to explore the political consequences of sexual difference.
Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer
Offering a diversity of theoretical, methodological and political approaches Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer presents not only the latest, cutting-edge research in this field but a challenging and unique approach to the issue that will be of key interest to researchers across the social sciences and humanities.
Self-Transformations: Foucault, Ethics, and Normalized Bodies
Cressida J. Heyes | Oxford University Press, 2007
Heyes’ monograph in feminist philosophy is on the connection between the idea of “normalization”–which per Foucault is a mode or force of control that homogenizes a population–and the gendered body.
The Grammar of Politics: Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy
Cressida J. Heyes, ed. | Cornell University Press, 2003
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s work has been widely interpreted and appropriated by subsequent philosophers, as well as by scholars from areas as diverse as anthropology, cultural studies, literary theory, sociology, law, and medicine.
Line Drawings: Defining Women through Feminist Practice
Cressida J. Heyes | Cornell University Press, 2000
At the heart of feminist theory lies the seemingly intractable issue of essentialism. Feminism has thus far failed to transcend critiques of essentialism and currently offers only two inadequate positions against it.
Journal articles
Cressida J. Heyes, “Abnormal in Alberta: The Genealogy of ‘Severely Normal’ as a Biopolitical Dogwhistle.” Topia: Journal of Canadian Cultural Studies, forthcoming 2024.
Cressida J. Heyes and Hannah Haugen, “The New Horizontal Worker: Privacy, Sexuality, and Professionalism in the Digital Bedroom.” Intermediality/intermédialités Fall 2023 (paywall), special issue on “Sleeping/dormir.”
Cressida J. Heyes, “Reading Advice to Parents About Children’s Sleep: The Political Psychology of a Self-Help Genre.” Critical Inquiry, Winter 2023 (paywall).
Cressida J. Heyes, “The Short and the Long of It: A Political Phenomenology of Pandemic Time.” Philosophy Today 64:4, 2020.
Cressida J. Heyes, “Two Kinds of Awareness: Foucault, The Will, and Freedom in Somatic Practice.” Human Studies 2018. https://rdcu.be/2Qwo
Heyes, Cressida J. and J. R. Latham. “Trans Surgeries and Cosmetic Surgeries: The Politics of Analogy.” Trans Studies Quarterly 5:2, 2018: 174-189.
Cressida J. Heyes, “Dead to the World: Rape, Unconsciousness, and Social Media.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 41:2, January 2016. Here is a pre-print of this article and some further resources for teachers.
Cressida J. Heyes, Megan Dean, and Lisa Goldberg. “Queer phenomenology, sexual orientation, and health care spaces: Learning from the narratives of queer women and nurses in primary health care.” Journal of Homosexuality, August 2015.
Cressida J. Heyes and Angela Thachuk, “Queering Know-How: Clinical Skill Acquisition as Ethical Practice.” Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, July 2014.
“Foucault and Feminist Philosophy Now.” Introduction to special issue of Foucault Studies on Foucault and feminism, Fall 2013. Available on-line.
“Be Reasonable: A Response to Amy Allen’s The Politics of Our Selves.” Philosophy and Social Criticism, September 2012. PDF: author posting.
Cressida J. Heyes and Chloë Taylor. “Between Disciplinary Power and Care of the Self: A Dialogue on Foucault and the Psychological Sciences.” PhaenEx 5:2, 2010: 179-209. Available on-line.
“Ressentiment, Agency, Freedom: Reflecting on Responses to Self-Transformations.” Hypatia 25:1, 2010. PDF: author posting.
“Diagnosing Culture: Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Cosmetic Surgery.” Body and Society 15:4, December 2009. PDF: author posting.
(with Natalie Helberg and Jaclyn Rohel), “Thinking Through the Body: Yoga, Philosophy, and Physical Education.” Teaching Philosophy, September 2009. PDF: Author posting.
“Normalisation and the Psychic Life of Cosmetic Surgery.” Australian Feminist Studies, 22:52 2007. PDF: Author posting.
“Cosmetic Surgery and the Televisual Makeover: A Foucauldian Feminist Reading.” PDF: Author Posting. (c) Taylor & Francis, 2007. This is the author’s version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Taylor & Francis for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Feminist Media Studies, Volume 7 Issue 1, March 2007.
“Changing Race, Changing Sex: The Ethics of Self-Transformation.” Journal of Social Philosophy 37:2, 2006: 266-282. Reprinted with new preamble in Laurie Shrage, ed. You’ve Changed: Sex Reassignment and Personal Identity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
“Foucault Goes to Weight Watchers.” Hypatia 21:2, 2006: 126-149. PDF: Author posting.
Always Ask Why ? Teaching Philosophy 101.” Halifax: Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education monograph series, 2004.
“Feminist Solidarity After Queer Theory: The Case of Transgender.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28:4, 2003: 1093-1120. PDF: Author posting. Reprinted in The Transgender Studies Reader, ed. Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle, Routledge 2013.
“Identity Politics.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2002. New edition 2020. http://plato.stanford.edu/
“Teaching Wollstonecraft’s Maria, Or The Wrongs of Woman.” Teaching Philosophy 23:2, 2000: 111-25.
“Anti-Essentialism in Practice: Carol Gilligan and Feminist Philosophy.” Hypatia 12:3, 1997: 142-63. PDF: Author posting. Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism v. 208, Thomson-Gale, 2005.
Book chapters
Cressida J. Heyes, “Practices of Justification: From Philosophy to Pluralism,” in Dimitri Karmis and Jocelyn Maclure ed. Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity: James Tully’s Public Philosophy. McGill-Queens Press, 2023.
Cressida J. Heyes, “Feminist Philosophy of the Body,” in Kim Q. Hall and Ásta ed. Handbook of Feminist Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2021.
“Anaesthetics of Existence.” In Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine, ed. Kristin Zeiler and Lisa Folkmarson Käll. SUNY Press 2014.
“Child, Birth: An Anaesthetic.” In Dimensions of Pain: Humanities and Social Science Perspectives, ed. Lisa Folkmarson Käll. Routledge 2012.
“Subjectivity and Power.” In Foucault: Key Concepts, ed. Dianna Taylor. London: Acumen, 2011.
“All Cosmetic Surgery is Ethnic: Asian Eyelids, Feminist Indignation, and the Politics of Whiteness.” In Cressida J. Heyes and Meredith Jones, ed. Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate 2009). PDF: author posting.
“Can there be a Queer Politics of Recognition?” in Robin Fiore and Hilde Lindemann Nelson ed., Recognition, Responsibility, and Rights: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).
“‘Back to the Rough Ground!’: Wittgenstein, Essentialism, and Feminist Methods.” in Naomi Scheman ed., Re-Reading the Canon: Feminist Interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein (University Park: Penn State Press, 2002).
Review essay: “Reading Transgender, Rethinking Women’s Studies.” NWSA Journal 12:2, 2000: 170-80. PDF. Reprinted in Masculinity Lessons: Rethinking Men’s and Women’s Studies, ed. James Catano and Daniel Novak. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
