Self-Transformations: Foucault, Ethics, and Normalized Bodies

by Cressida J. Heyes

Book Overview

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 that presupposes an "inner" core of the self that is expressed, accurately or not, by the outer body--obscures the connection between contemporary discourses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195310543
• ISBN13: 9780195310542
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"