Mary C. Rawlinson is a professor of philosophy at

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in New York and a research fellow at the

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(UCL) Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS).

Life

Rawlinson published "The concept of a feminist bioethics" in 2001 in which she argued that the "invisible gendering of the universal renders the other gender invisible and silent". In 2006 she started the ''IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics''. She was the editor until 2016, and is still a member of the advisory board. Between 2007 and 2017, Rawlinson was the co-founder and co-director of The Irigaray Circle. Much of her work focusses on

Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a 19th-century German idealism, German idealist. His influence extends across a wide range of topics from metaphysical issues in epistemology and ontology, to political phi ...

Irigaray Luce Irigaray (; born 3 May 1930) is a Belgium, Belgian-born French people, French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst, and Cultural studies, cultural theorist who examines the uses and misuses of language in relation ...

bioethics Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, me ...

and

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

ideologies. Her published materials cover the philosophical disciplines of

metaphysics Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality. It is traditionally seen as the study of mind-independent features of the world, but some theorists view it as an inquiry into the conceptual framework of ...

phenomenology Phenomenology may refer to: Art * Phenomenology (architecture), based on the experience of building materials and their sensory properties Philosophy * Phenomenology (Peirce), a branch of philosophy according to Charles Sanders Peirce (1839� ...

and

psychoanalysis PsychoanalysisFrom Greek language, Greek: and is a set of theories and techniques of research to discover unconscious mind, unconscious processes and their influence on conscious mind, conscious thought, emotion and behaviour. Based on The Inte ...

. She has also written extensively on

literary theory Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis. Culler 1997, p.1 Since the 19th century, literary scholarship includes literary theory and considerations of intellectual history, m ...

and criticism within the purview of

continental philosophy Continental philosophy is a group of philosophies prominent in 20th-century continental Europe that derive from a broadly Kantianism, Kantian tradition.Continental philosophers usually identify such conditions with the transcendental subject or ...

. Her book, The Betrayal of Substance assesses Hegel's

Phenomenology of Spirit ''The Phenomenology of Spirit'' (or ''The Phenomenology of Mind''; ) is the most consequential philosophical work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegel described the 1807 work, a ladder to the greater philosophical system of the '' Encyclopaed ...

, arguing that whilst some of his theory is sound, Hegel experienced limitations in separating consciousness from sensory existence. Within her scope of philosophy, Mary Rawlinson has received critical success (CITE) and numerous responses on sites such as the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, the Dictionary of Open Access Journal and her former website, IJFAB.

Selected publications

* ''The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics'' (Springer, 2006) * ''Thinking with Irigaray'' (SUNY, 2011) * ''Labor and Global Justice'' (Lexington, 2014) * ''Global Food, Global Justice'' (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015) * ''Just Life: bioethics and the future of sexual difference'' (Columbia University Press, 2016) * ''Engaging the World: Thinking After Irigaray'' (SUNY, 2016) * ''The Betrayal of Substance: death, literature, and sexual difference in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit'' (Columbia University Press, 2021) * ''What Is Sexual Difference: Thinking After Irigaray'' (Columbia University Press, 2024) * ''Opening Hegel's Autological Circle: Irigaray and the Metaphysics of Sexual Difference'' (What is Sexual Difference? 2023) * Justice in an Unjust World: The Politics of Narration in Luce Irigaray and Frank Miller's Sin City (SUNY, 2023) * ''The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics'' (Routledge, 2016) * ''Women's Work: Ethics, Homecooking and the Sexual Politics of Food'' (Routledge, 2016) * The Climate of Food: Justice, Truth and Structural Change (Environment and Climate Change: Justice at the Intersections, 2012) * Women's Rights, Human Rights: Rethinking the Universal in Bioethics (Feminist Bioethics, 2010) * ''Derrida and Feminism'' (Routledge, 1997).(with Ellen Feder and Emily Zakin)Reviews of ''Derrida and Feminism'' * * * Foucault' Strategy: knowledge, power, and the specificity of truth (Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1987) * THE SENSE OF SUFFERING* Better to suffer than to die: that is mankind's motto (Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1986) * Hegel on Forgiveness (Oxford University Press)

References

External links

* https://philpeople.org/profiles/91138/publication_attributions?app=890%27a%3D0page%3D3&order=viewings&page=2 * https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=4114 {{Authority control Vanderbilt University alumni Stony Brook University faculty Bioethicists American philosophy academics Date of birth missing (living people) Living people