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53Gender, Bodies, Freedom: Feminist Philosophy across TraditionsConstellations 13 (4): 573-582. 2006.
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101Cosmetic Surgery and the Televisual Makeover: A Foucauldian feminist readingFeminist Media Studies 7 (1): 17-32. 2007.I argue that the televisual cosmetic surgical makeover is usefully understood as a contemporary manifestation of normalization, in Foucault’s sense—a process of defining a population in relation to its conformity or deviance from a norm, while simultaneously generating narratives of individual authenticity. Drawing on detailed analysis of “Extreme Makeover,” I suggest that the show erases its complicity with creating homogeneous bodies by representing cosmetic surgery as enabling of personal tran…Read more
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697Reading transgender, rethinking women's studiesNational Women's Studies Association Journal 12 (2): 170-180. 2000.Representing the best popular and scholarly contributions to transgender/ sex studies, and with their mutual concern with female-to-male sex and gender crossing (among other topics), these three books mark an important shift in scholarship on gender and sexuality. Trans studies has reached a level of autonomy and sophistication that firmly establishes it as a field with its own theoretical and political questions. Of course, connections to feminist and queer theory are still very apparent in the…Read more
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3Ludwig Nagl and Chantal Mouffe, eds., The Legacy of Wittgenstein: Pragmatism or Deconstruction Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 23 (5): 353-356. 2003.
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102Anti‐Essentialism in Practice: Carol Gilligan and Feminist PhilosophyHypatia 12 (3): 142-163. 1997.Third wave anti-essentialist critique has too often been used to dismiss second wave feminist projects. I examine claims that Carol Gilligan's work is "essentialist," and argue that her recent research requires this criticism be rethought. Anti-essentialist feminist method should consist in attention to the relations of power that construct accounts of gendered identity in the course of different forms of empirical enquiry, not in rejecting any general claim about women or girls
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45Queering Know-How: Clinical Skill Acquisition as Ethical PracticeJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 12 (2): 331-341. 2015.Our study of queer women patients and their primary health care providers in Halifax, Nova Scotia, reveals a gap between providers’ theoretical knowledge of “cultural competency” and patients’ experience. Drawing on Patricia Benner’s Dreyfusian model of skill acquisition in nursing, we suggest that the dissonance between the anti-heteronormative principles expressed in interviews and the relative absence of skilled anti-heteronormative clinical practice can be understood as a failure to grasp th…Read more
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2Iris Marion Young, Intersecting Voices: Dilemmas of Gender, Political Philosophy, and Policy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 19 (1): 75-77. 1999.
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26Between disciplinary power and care of the self: A dialogue on Foucault and the psychological sciencesPhaenex 5 (2): 179-209. 2010.A Dialogue on Foucault and the Psychological Sciences
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109The subject of normalization and its relationship to sex/gender is a major one in feminist theory; Heyes' book is unique in her masterful use of Foucault; its clarity, and its sophisticated mix of the theoretical and the anecdotal. It will appeal to feminist philosophers and theorists.
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53Making Sense of Making Sense of Intersex (review)Philosophy Today 60 (3): 789-797. 2016.A contribution to a symposium on Ellen Feder's book, Making Sense of Intersex.
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41Diagnosing Culture: Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Cosmetic SurgeryBody and Society 15 (4): 73-93. 2009.A recent clinical literature on the psychology of cosmetic surgery patients is concerned with distinguishing good from bad candidates. Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) — a mental disorder marked by a pathological aversion to some aspect(s) of one’s appearance — is typically understood in this context as a contra-indication for cosmetic surgery, as it marks those with inappropriate motivation who are unlikely to be satisfied by the surgery’s outcomes. This article uses Foucault’s genealogical work …Read more
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55The grammar of politics: Wittgenstein and political philosophy (edited book)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. The Grammar of Politics demonstrates the variety of ways political philosophers understand Wittgenstein's importance to their discipline and apply Wittgensteinian methods to their own projects. In her introduction, Cressida J. Heyes notes that Wittgenstein himself was skep…Read more
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University of AlbertaRegular Faculty
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Philosophy of Social Science |