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24Heyes’s Introduction to Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience on the EdgeFeminist Philosophy Quarterly 9 (2). 2023.In this short introduction to my monograph Anaesthetics of Existence, I explain the origin of the book in a mishearing of Foucault’s phrase “an aesthetics of existence” and outline the book’s method (a melding of genealogy and phenomenology) and its subject: the politics of experience, and especially how to think about undergoings that either are excluded from experience or happen at its edges. The book contains a chapter on Foucault and this new method; one on sexual violence against unconsciou…Read more
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22Review of Eric Plemons, The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans-Medicine (review)American Journal of Bioethics 18 (6). 2018.
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21Dislocation and Self-Certainty (review)Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 4 (2). 2018.A short critical engagement as part of a symposium on Ami Harbin's book Disorientation and Moral Life.
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20Reading Advice to Parents about Children’s Sleep: The Political Psychology of a Self-Help GenreCritical Inquiry 49 (2): 145-164. 2023.The genre of advice to parents about children’s sleep proliferated between the mid-1980s and the beginning of the twenty-first century. This article reads that genre against itself, as symptomatic of larger political trends—the end of the privilege of the normative mid-century nuclear family and the advent of neoliberal ideology and political economy. Specifically, it argues that this wave of advice reflects an ambivalence about the autonomous individual within neoliberalism versus the need for …Read more
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19Situating Genealogies of TerrorismFoucault Studies 1 (28): 17-24. 2020.A contribution to a symposium on the book, Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State, Violence, Empire, by Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson.
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17Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer (edited book)Routledge. 2009.Leading feminist scholars have been brought together for the first time in this comprehensive volume to reveal the complexity of feminist engagements with the exponentially growing cosmetic surgery phenomenon. 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 socia…Read more
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16Recognition, Responsibility, and Rights: Feminist Ethics and Social TheoryRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2002.This collection of papers by prominent feminist thinkers advances the positive feminist project of remapping the moral by developing theory that acknowledges the diversity of women
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16Review of C. G. Prado (ed.), Foucault's Legacy (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (8). 2010.
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12Sonia Kruks, Retrieving Experience: Subjectivity and Recognition in Feminist Politics Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 21 (5): 346-349. 2001.
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10Justification, Pluralism, and Disciplinary Discontents; or, Leaving PhilosophyIn Dimitrios Karmis & Jocelyn Maclure (eds.), Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity: The Public Philosophy of James Tully, Mcgill-queen's University Press. pp. 41-63. 2023.This article reviews a slew of discriminatory and harassing events that struck the discipline of Philosophy in the 2010s, suggesting that they be understood as part of a breakdown in practices of judgement within the discipline. Drawing on the work of James Tully, Hannah Arendt, and William Connolly on pluralism and judgement, the essay shows the increasingly impoverished self-justifications used to hold back both intellectual and group pluralism within the North American discipline, while holdi…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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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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1Christine Overall, A Feminist I: Reflections From Academia (review)Philosophy in Review 19 (5): 365-367. 1999.
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Anaesthetics of ExistenceIn Kristin Zeiler & Lisa Folkmarson Käll (eds.), Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine, State University of New York Press. pp. 263-284. 2014.
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Recognition, Responsibility, and Rights: Feminist Ethics and Social TheoryRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2002.In the words of Catharine MacKinnon, "a woman is not yet a name for a way of being human." In other words, women are still excluded, as authors and agents, from identifying what it is to be human and what therefore violates the dignity and integrity of humans. Recognition, Responsibility, and Rights is written in response to that failure. This collection of essays by prominent feminist thinkers advances the positive feminist project of remapping the moral landscape by developing theory that ackn…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 |