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Aesthetic surgery and the expressive body (2017)
Journal Article
Alsop, R., & Lennon, K. (2018). Aesthetic surgery and the expressive body. Feminist Theory, 19(1), 95-112. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700117734736

In this paper we explore the relation between bodies and selves evident in the narratives surrounding aesthetic surgery. In much feminist work on aesthetic surgery such narratives have been discussed in terms of the normalising consequences of the ob... Read More about Aesthetic surgery and the expressive body.

Feminist journeys : travelling through at 25 years of feminism with the Journal of gender studies (2016)
Journal Article
Clisby, S., & Lennon, K. (2016). Feminist journeys : travelling through at 25 years of feminism with the Journal of gender studies. Journal of gender studies,

In this introductory article we provide a contextual theoretical framework of feminist debates and movements through the lens of the Journal of Gender Studies over the course of the past quarter of a century. Attention to the processes by which we be... Read More about Feminist journeys : travelling through at 25 years of feminism with the Journal of gender studies.

Biology and metaphysics of sex difference (2012)
Book Chapter
Lennon, K. (2012). Biology and metaphysics of sex difference. In S. Gonzalez-Arnal, G. Jagger, & K. Lennon (Eds.), Embodied selves (29-45). Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan

Embodied selves (2012)
Book
Lennon, K., Arnal, S. G., & Jagger, G. (2012). S. Gonzalez-Arnal, K. Lennon, & G. Jagger (Eds.). Embodied selves. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283696

This interdisciplinary collection explores the role the body plays in constituting our sense of self, signalling the interplay between material embodiment, social meaning, and material and social conditions. Collectively the papers draw attention to... Read More about Embodied selves.

Imagination and the expression of emotion (2011)
Journal Article
Lennon, K. (2011). Imagination and the expression of emotion. Ratio, 24(3), 282-298. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9329.2011.00500.x

Many writers offer accounts of our grasp of the expressive gestures of others, or of the expressive content of works of art, in terms of our imagining the experiences of another, or ourselves having certain experiences, or, in the case of works of ar... Read More about Imagination and the expression of emotion.

Re-enchanting the world: The role of imagination in perception (2010)
Journal Article
Lennon, K. (2010). Re-enchanting the world: The role of imagination in perception. Philosophy : the journal of the British Institute of Philosophical Studies, 85(3), 375-389. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819110000239

This paper defends what the philosopher Merleau Ponty coins 'the imaginary texture of the real'. It is suggested that the imagination is at work in the everyday world which we perceive, the world as it is for us. In defending this view a concept of t... Read More about Re-enchanting the world: The role of imagination in perception.