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Mary C. RawlinsonProfessor Emeritus Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1978
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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