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Mary C. RawlinsonProfessor Emeritus |
Areas of Specialization
Areas of Specialization: Social justice; Hegel; bioethics; global health; aesthetics and philosophy of literature; Proust; contemporary French thought
Mary C. Rawlinson is the author of Not a Fragrant World: justice in philosophy and crime fiction (forthcoming Bloomsbury, 2026),The Betrayal of Substance: death literature and sexual difference in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (Columbia University Press, 2021), and Just Life: Bioethics and the Future of Sexual Difference (Columbia University Press, 2016.) She is the editor or co-editor of What Is Sexual Difference? Thinking with Irigaray (Columbia University Press, 2023),The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics (Routledge, 2016), Engaging the World: Thinking after Irigaray (SUNY, 2016), Global Food, Global Justice: Essays on Eating Under Globalization (Cambridge Scholars, 2015), Labor and Global Justice: essays on the ethics of labor practices under globalization (Lexington Books, 2015), Thinking with Irigaray (SUNY, 2011), The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics (Springer, 2006), and Derrida and Feminism (Routledge, 1997).
Rawlinson edited five issues of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, including Foucault and the Philosophy of Medicine, The Future of Psychiatry, and Feminist Bioethics. Her publications include articles on Hegel, Proust, literature and ethics, food justice, the ethics of tourism, bioethics, the critique of rights, and contemporary French philosophy.
Rawlinson was the Founding Editor (2006-2016) of IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics and the Co-founder and Co-director (2006-2017) of The Irigaray Circle.
In 2016 Rawlinson received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring Graduate Students. In 2018 Rawlinson was appointed Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, University College London where she currently resides.
Selected recent articles
- Irigaray’s Revolution: Undoing the Logic of the Same in Philosophy and Ethics, in Bloomsbury 20th Century French Thought, May, 2023: www.bloomsburyphilosophylibrary.com/about-bloomsbury-20th-century-french-thought
- Global Justice, in Encyclopaedia of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Springer, 2023. https://www.academia.edu/111156362/Global_Justice
- Opening Hegel’s Autological Circle: Irigaray and the Metaphysics of Sexual Difference, in What Is Sexual Difference? Thinking with Irigaray, Mary C. Rawlinson and James Sares, eds., New York: Columbia University Press, 2023, 39-58. https://www.academia.edu/111154887/Opening_Hegels_Autological_Circle_Irigaray_and_the_Metaphysics_of_Sexual_Difference
- Justice in an Unjust World: the Politics of Narration in Luce Irigaray and Frank Miller’s Sin City, in Horizons of Difference: Rethinking Place, Space, and Identity with Irigaray, Ruthanne C. Kim, Yvette Russell, and Brenda Sharp, eds., Albany: SUNY Press, 2022, 215-240. https://www.academia.edu/95035792/JUSTICE_IN_AN_UNJUST_WORLD_THE_POLITICS_OF_NARRATION_IN_LUCE_IRIGARAY_AND_FRANK_MILLERS_SIN_CITY
- Long Distances: Touration, Travel, and the Ethics of Tourism, in Philosophy, Travel, and Place: Being in Transit, Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz, eds., London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 7-50.
- The Climate of Food: Justice, Truth, and Structural Change, in Food, Environment, and Climate Change: Justice at the Intersections, Erinn Cuniff Gilson and Sarah Kenehan, eds., London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018, 91-118. https://www.academia.edu/68875886/THE_CLIMATE_OF_FOOD_JUSTICE_TRUTH_AND_STRUCTURAL_CHANGE
- Women’s Work: Ethics, Homecooking, and the Sexual Politics of Food, in Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics, Routledge, 2016, 61-71. https://www.academia.edu/111340121/WOMENS_WORK_ETHICS_HOMECOOKING_AND_THE_SEXUAL_POLITICS_OF_FOOD
- Game Change: Philosophy After Irigaray, in Engaging the World: Thinking After Irigaray, Albany: SUNY Press, 2016, 65-75. https://www.academia.edu/95036138/Game_Change_Philosophy_After_Irigaray
- Biopolitics, Bioethics, and the Capitalization of Female Bodies, in Poetic Biopolitics, Peg Rawes, ed, London: I.B. Tauris, 2016, 24-45 https://www.academia.edu/164717548/Biopolitics_Bioethics_and_the_Capitalization_of_Female_Bodies
- Meaningful Work: labor, gender, and justice under globalization, in Labor and Justice, Lexington Books, 2014, 23-42. https://www.academia.edu/164717662/Chap_7_MEANINGFUL_WORK
- Beyond Antigone: Ismene, Gender, and the Right to Life, in The Returns of Antigone, Tina Chanter and Sean Kirkland, eds., Albany: SUNY Press, 2014.https://www.academia.edu/164717323/Beyond_Antigone
Professor Mary C. Rawlinson's CV