Papers by Cressida J Heyes
SUNY Press eBooks, Feb 21, 2014
Feminist philosophy quarterly, Jun 16, 2023
In this response to readers, I start by summarizing and extending Megan Burke's comments on inter... more In this response to readers, I start by summarizing and extending Megan Burke's comments on interrupted time in the context of houselessness and the way vulnerable people are often denied their own temporality altogether. Burke suggests that there is something called "anaesthetized time" that approaches death, and they invite the project to consider more closely the varieties of power that some have over others' time. I relate these remarks to a political tradition in African American philosophy that Elizabeth Freeman calls thanatomimesis. In her response to the book, Talia Bettcher argues that two of the overly dichotomous framings need to be broken up: postdisciplinary and anaesthetic time, and agency and passivity. I clarify this point and suggest that these comments might point toward more generative work, including in relation to Bettcher's own project on intimate agency. Finally Alisa Bierria relates the work of Anaesthetics to her own project on incarceration, suggesting that in addition to being denied their own time, prisoners are rendered into temporal property. This is a helpful concept that, I suggest, could be linked more clearly to Bierria's understanding of revelatory agency and to the time of the contracted present.
Feminist philosophy quarterly, Jun 16, 2023
Choice Reviews Online, Dec 1, 2000
Herndon, and Peter Hovmand for supporting my work and being ready in-terlocutors. Thanks are also... more Herndon, and Peter Hovmand for supporting my work and being ready in-terlocutors. Thanks are also due to all my feminist students at MSU, espe-cially the students in my "Philosophical Aspects of Feminism" course, for their enthusiasm and willingness to learn and teach. ...
Feminist philosophy quarterly, 2018
This article summarizes Ami Harbin's 2016 monograph, Disorientation and Moral Life, which argues ... more This article summarizes Ami Harbin's 2016 monograph, Disorientation and Moral Life, which argues that disorientations are an invaluable ethical resource. Harbin offers what she calls a "non-resolvist account of moral agency," in which non-deliberative and non-decisive action has the potential to be just as morally significant as fully thought-through and conclusive decision-making. It then suggests that Harbin's moral method provides a useful way of thinking through political inequities in the discipline of philosophy, and illustrates this with some examples. It highlights three lacunae or possible extensions to the argument: the value but also the complexity of understanding "doubling back" strategies; the ambivalence between psychological and philosophical claims about the value of irresoluteness and the paradoxical nature of being certain of the value of moral uncertainty; and the spatial, temporal, and embodied nature of disorientation.
Oxford University Press eBooks, Oct 1, 2007
This chapter addresses the issue of how — in theory and in practice — feminism should engage bise... more This chapter addresses the issue of how — in theory and in practice — feminism should engage bisexuality, intersexuality, transsexuality, transgender, and other emergent identities (or anti-identities) that reconfigure both conventional and conventionally feminist understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality. How feminists should imagine and create communities that take the institutions and practices of sex, gender, and sexuality to be politically relevant to freedom, or how might such communities incorporate our manifest and intransigent diversity, and build solidarity, is discussed with reference to the leitmotif of transgender. A critical analysis is made of two very different feminist texts: the 1994 reissue of Janice Raymond's notorious The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male (originally published in 1979) and Bernice Hausman's 1995 book Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender. This chapter shows that the differences between the ethical and political dilemmas faced by feminists who are transgendered and those who are not are not as great as some theorists have suggested.
Teaching Philosophy, 2009
Philosophers sometimes hope that our discipline will be transformative for students, perhaps espe... more Philosophers sometimes hope that our discipline will be transformative for students, perhaps especially when we teach so-called philosophy of the body. To that end, this article describes an experimental upper-level undergraduate course cross-listed between Philosophy and Physical Education, entitled "Thinking Through the Body: Philosophy and Yoga." Drawing on the perspectives of professor and students, we show how a somatic practice (here, hatha yoga) and reading texts (here, primarily contemporary phenomenology) can be integrated in teaching and learning. We suggest that the course raised questions about the ethics of evaluation as well as about the split between theory and practice, which have larger pedagogical implications.
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Apr 1, 2002
Page 1. 168 Hypatia The Feminist Standpoint Revisited and Other Essays. By NANCY CM HARTSOCK. Bou... more Page 1. 168 Hypatia The Feminist Standpoint Revisited and Other Essays. By NANCY CM HARTSOCK. Boulder: Westview, 1998. Cressida J. Heyes Approaching The Feminist Standpoint Revisited, I was both hopeful that Nancy ...
Penn State University Press eBooks, Sep 5, 2002
The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or i... more The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or indistinct print, cofored or paor quality illustrations and photographs, print bleedthrough, substandard margins, and improper alignment can adversely affect reproduction. in the unlikely event that the author did not send UMI a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if unauthorized copyright material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Oversize materials (a.g., maps, drawings, charts) are reproduced by sectioning the original, beginning at the upper left-hand comer and continuing fram left to right in equal sections with small overlaps. Each original is also photagraphed in one exposure and is included in reduced form at the back of the book.
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 2002
benefi ts from a close contextual analysis of complex relations of dependency shaped by political... more benefi ts from a close contextual analysis of complex relations of dependency shaped by political and professional hierarchies. It is diffi cult to give an adequate sense of the richness and depth of this collection in a short review. As a fi nal note, I encounter many papers by students and professionals that still assume that when feminists speak of a relational self, they are interested in personal relationships. This volume offers an extremely articulate vocabulary for thinking about the relational self, and I hope it will be widely recommended to students and colleagues who lack understanding of the sophistication of feminist work in moral psychology.
McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks, Feb 15, 2023
Penn State University Press eBooks, Sep 5, 2002
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 2002
Feminist philosophy quarterly, Jun 23, 2018
This article summarizes Ami Harbin's 2016 monograph, Disorientation and Moral Life, which argues ... more This article summarizes Ami Harbin's 2016 monograph, Disorientation and Moral Life, which argues that disorientations are an invaluable ethical resource. Harbin offers what she calls a "non-resolvist account of moral agency," in which non-deliberative and non-decisive action has the potential to be just as morally significant as fully thought-through and conclusive decision-making. It then suggests that Harbin's moral method provides a useful way of thinking through political inequities in the discipline of philosophy, and illustrates this with some examples. It highlights three lacunae or possible extensions to the argument: the value but also the complexity of understanding "doubling back" strategies; the ambivalence between psychological and philosophical claims about the value of irresoluteness and the paradoxical nature of being certain of the value of moral uncertainty; and the spatial, temporal, and embodied nature of disorientation.
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Jul 1, 1997
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 2006
This article argues that commercial weight-loss organizations appropriate and debase the askeses-... more This article argues that commercial weight-loss organizations appropriate and debase the askeses-practices of care of the self-that Michel Foucault theorized, increasing members' capacities at the same time as they encourage participation in ever-tightening webs of power. Weight Watchers, for example, claims to promote self-knowledge, cultivate new capacities and pleasures, foster self-care in face of gendered exploitation, and encourage wisdom and flexibility. The hupomnemata of these organizations thus use asketic language to conceal their implication in normalization.
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Papers by Cressida J Heyes