Mary C. Rawlinson


Mary Crenshaw Rawlinson is a professor of philosophy at Stony Brook University in New York and a research fellow at the University College London Institute of Advanced Studies.

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, Irigaray, bioethics and feminist ideologies. Her published materials cover the philosophical disciplines of metaphysics, phenomenology and psychoanalysis. She has also written extensively on literary theory and criticism within the purview of continental philosophy. Her book, The Betrayal of Substance assesses Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, 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 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 Thinking with Irigaray Labor and Global Justice Global Food, Global Justice Just Life: bioethics and the future of sexual difference Engaging the World: Thinking After Irigaray The Betrayal of Substance: death, literature, and sexual difference in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit What Is Sexual Difference: Thinking After Irigaray Opening Hegel's Autological Circle: Irigaray and the Metaphysics of Sexual Difference