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Mary C. Rawlinson

{{Short description|American philosopher}}

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| other_names = Mary Rawlinson

| known_for = Feminist Bioethics

| education = Vanderbilt University (1969–1973)

| employer = Stony Brook University

Honourary Research Fellow, IAS

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Mary C. Rawlinson is a professor of philosophy at Stony Brook University in New York and a research fellow at the University College London (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".{{Cite journal |last=Rawlinson |first=Mary C. |date=2001 |title=The Concept of a Feminist Bioethics |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/RAWTCO |journal=Journal of Medicine and Philosophy |volume=26 |issue=4 |pages=405–416 |doi=10.1076/jmep.26.4.405.3010|pmid=11484132 }} In 2006 she started the IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.{{Cite web |date=2025-04-16 |title=IJFAB Blog {{!}} Official Blog of IJFAB: the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics |url=http://www.ijfab.org/blog/ |access-date=2025-04-16 |website=www.ijfab.org |language=en-US}} She was the editor until 2016, and is still a member of the advisory board.{{Cite web |title=IJFAB: Advisory Board |url=http://www.ijfab.org/Advisory_Board.html |access-date=2025-04-16 |website=www.ijfab.org}} Between 2007 and 2017, Rawlinson was the co-founder and co-director of The Irigaray Circle.{{Cite web |last=UCL |date=2018-05-25 |title=Professor Mary C. Rawlinson |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/people/professor-mary-c-rawlinson |access-date=2025-04-15 |website=Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) |language=en}}

Much of her work{{Cite web |title=Mary C . Rawlinson - Academia.edu |url=https://independent.academia.edu/RawlinsonMary |access-date=2025-04-15 |website=independent.academia.edu}} focusses on Hegel,{{Cite book |last=Rawlinson |first=Mary C. |url=https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-betrayal-of-substance/9780231199056/ |title=The Betrayal of Substance: Death, Literature, and Sexual Difference in Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" |date=February 2021 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-55292-9}} 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 (CITE) and numerous responses{{Cite journal |last=Hoff |first=Shannon |date=2022 |title=The Betrayal of Substance: Death, Literature, and Sexual Difference in Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" by Mary C. Rawlinson (review) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/866772/summary |journal=PhiloSOPHIA |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=225–229 |doi=10.1353/phi.2022.0007 |issn=2155-0905}}{{Cite web |last=Mills-Rawlinson |title=Just Life: Bioethics and the Future of Sexual Difference |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/just-life-bioethics-and-the-future-of-sexual-difference/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20231206010647/https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/just-life-bioethics-and-the-future-of-sexual-difference/ |archive-date=2023-12-06 |access-date=2025-04-16 |website=Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews |language=en-US}} on sites such as the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy,{{Cite web |title=Mary Rawlinson, Just Life: Bioethics and the Future of Sexual Difference {{!}} CSCP / SCPC |url=https://c-scp.org/2018/07/22/mary-rawlinson-just-life-bioethics-and-the-future-of-sexual-difference |access-date=2025-04-16 |website=c-scp.org}} the Dictionary of Open Access Journal{{Cite journal |last=Noll |first=Samantha |date=2020-12-01 |title=Book Review The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics Mary Rawlinson and Caleb Ward, Eds. Routledge, 2016 |url=https://doaj.org/article/35820cfa541a465581f47f866c3d74c6 |journal=Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies |language=en |volume=13 |issue=38 |issn=1972-1293}} and her former website, IJFAB.{{Cite web |date=2017-07-03 |title=HRO reviews new book by former IJFAB editor Mary Rawlinson on sexual difference {{!}} IJFAB Blog |url=http://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/07/hro-reviews-new-book-by-former-ijfab-editor-mary-rawlinson-on-sexual-difference/ |access-date=2025-04-16 |website=www.ijfab.org |language=en-US}}

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)Reviews of Just Life

{{Cite journal |last1=Atanasoski |first1=Neda |last2=Rawlinson |first2=Mary C. |date=2018 |title=Review of Just Life: Bioethics and the Future of Sexual Difference, RawlinsonMary C. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26553013 |journal=Signs |volume=43 |issue=2 |pages=494–495 |doi=10.1086/693770 |jstor=26553013 |issn=0097-9740}}

  • {{Cite journal |last=Myers |first=Ella |date=2016 |title=Review of Just Life: Bioethics and the Future of Sexual Difference |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26315191 |journal=Perspectives on Politics |volume=14 |issue=4 |pages=1208–1210 |doi=10.1017/S1537592716003571 |jstor=26315191 |issn=1537-5927}}
  • {{Cite journal |last1=Bernstein |first1=Richard J. |last2=Rawlinson |first2=Mary C. |date=2017 |title=Review of Just Life: Bioethics and the Future of Sexual Difference, RawlinsonMary C. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/90019569 |journal=International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=159–167 |doi=10.3138/ijfab.10.2.159 |jstor=90019569 |issn=1937-4585}}
  • 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)Reviews of The Betrayal of Substance
  • {{Cite journal |last=Vero |first=Marta |date=2022-04-01 |title=Mary C. Rawlinson, The Betrayal of Substance: Death, Literature, and Sexual Difference in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit |url=https://www.pdcnet.org/gfpj/content/gfpj_2022_0043_0001_0190_0194 |journal=Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal |language=en |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=190–194 |doi=10.5840/gfpj20224318}}
  • {{Cite journal |last=Hoff |first=Shannon |date=2022 |title=The Betrayal of Substance: Death, Literature, and Sexual Difference in Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" by Mary C. Rawlinson (review) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/866772 |journal=PhiloSOPHIA |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=225–229 |doi=10.1353/phi.2022.0007 |issn=2155-0905}}
  • {{Cite journal |last=Abazari |first=Arash |date=2021 |title=Review of The Betrayal of Substance: Death, Literature and Sexual Difference in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27303001 |journal=Hegel-Studien |volume=55 |pages=292–295 |jstor=27303001 |issn=0073-1587}}
  • 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
  • {{Cite journal |last=Docherty |first=Thomas |date=1998 |title=Review of Feminist Interpretations of Jacques Derrida; Derrida and Feminism: Recasting the Question of Woman |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3736568 |journal=The Modern Language Review |volume=93 |issue=3 |pages=843–845 |doi=10.2307/3736568 |jstor=3736568 |issn=0026-7937}}
  • {{Cite journal |last=Jagger |first=Gill |date=1999 |title=Review of Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy; Derrida and Feminism: Recasting the Question of Woman |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24354174 |journal=Journal of Applied Philosophy |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=199–201 |jstor=24354174 |issn=0264-3758}}
  • 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

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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

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