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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! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60cfced87e94c83275b65414/1626719793505-TBF12SD0YMWPGKWN8468/41riJHbv7DL._SX313_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg Publications 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60cfced87e94c83275b65414/1626719976344-17UAJ1IH1H4AIPE2SCZR/0754676994.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SX500_.jpg Publications 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60cfced87e94c83275b65414/1626721115705-3NSJAWKY4OONSCA6FEBE/715uR3lk%2BXL.jpg Publications 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60cfced87e94c83275b65414/1626722246125-M2CCM9XROXGEDDL0A4KP/81toWd4LF%2BL.jpg Publications 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60cfced87e94c83275b65414/1626722256986-4TAFHVNVZE4P81H76DJ3/41tsaSP-5GL._SX331_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg Publications 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. https://www.cressidaheyes.com/research daily 0.75 2025-10-01 https://www.cressidaheyes.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-10-01 https://www.cressidaheyes.com/home daily 1.0 2026-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60cfced87e94c83275b65414/1626991690281-6UXJXEG5FUX8PBXCDYFX/banner.jpg Home - Sleep is the New Sex A project examining the lived experience and representation of sleep as it relates to work, rest, gender, and sexuality. Sleep is the New Sex: The Podcast season one ran from October 2025 to February 2026. Join hosts Cressida Heyes and Joshua Ayer for conversation about the cultural politics of sleep. Find us on Apple or direct from the source at sleepisthenewsex.ca. 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