Cressida J Heyes: 2 books

Book cover of Self-Transformations

Self-Transformations

Foucault, Ethics, and Normalized Bodies

by Cressida J. Heyes
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 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. Drawing on Foucault and Wittgenstein, she argues that the predominant picture of the self--a picture...
Book cover of Cosmetic Surgery

Cosmetic Surgery

A Feminist Primer

by Cressida J. Heyes
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016

Practices of cosmetic surgery have grown exponentially in recent years in both over-developed and developing worlds. What comprises cosmetic surgery has also changed, with a plethora of new procedures and an extraordinary rise of non-surgical operations. As the practices of cosmetic surgery have multiplied...
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