What Is Sexual Difference? – Thinking with Irigaray

Mary C. Rawlinson is professor emerita of philosophy at Stony Brook University and senior research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University College London. Her books include, most recently, The Betrayal of Substance: Death, Literature, and Sexual Difference in Hegel¿s Phenomenology of Spirit (Columbia, 2021), and she is the cofounder of the Luce Irigaray Circle.

James Sares is affiliated faculty in philosophy at Emerson College and holds a PhD in philosophy from Stony Brook University. He is the recipient of the 2018 Karen Burke Memorial Prize, awarded by the Irigaray Circle.

Foreword, by Elizabeth Grosz
List of Abbreviations (Works by Irigaray)
Introduction: Irigaray and the Question of Sexual Difference, by James Sares and Mary C. Rawlinson
1: The Ontology of Sexual Difference
1. The Ontological Negativity of Sexual Difference, by James Sares
2. Opening Hegel¿s Autological Circle: Irigaray and the Metaphysics of Sexual Difference, by Mary C. Rawlinson
3. One, Two, Many? Sexual Difference and the Problem of Universals, by Stephen D. Seely
4. Returning to Irigaray¿s Radical Materialism: Sexuate Difference, Ontology, and Bodies of Water, by Laura Roberts
2: Sexual Difference Beyond Sex/Gender
5. Life Itself and Sexual Difference: Nature and Culture, by Ruthanne Crapo Kim
6. Sexuation as a Frame for Human Becoming: Reading a ¿Plastic¿ Essence in Irigaray¿s Philosophy, by Belinda Eslick
7. Looking Back at ¿This Sex Which Is Not One¿: Post-deconstructive New Materialisms and Their (Sexual) Difference, by Penelope Deutscher
3: Sexuate Nature and Subjectivity
8. An Uncontainable Subject: Thinking Feminine Sexuate Subjectivity with Irigaray, by Jennifer Carter
9. Male Re-imaginings: From the Ontology of the Anal Toward a Phenomenology of Fluidity, by Ovidiu Anem¿oaicei
10. Sexual Difference as Qualitative Becoming: Irigaray Beyond Cissexism?, by Oli Stephano
11. An Onto-ethics of Transsexual Difference, by Mitchell Damian Murtagh
4: Placing Sexual Difference
12. Sexuate Difference in the Black Atlantic: Reading Irigaray with Hartman, by Rachel Jones
13. Bloodshed: Kinship as a Site of Violence in Irigaray and Spillers, by Sabrina L. Hom
14. Toward a Sexuate Jurisprudence and on the ¿Second Rape¿ of Law, by Yvette Russell
15. Place Thinking with Irigaray and Neidjie, by Rebecca Hill
5: Back to the Future of Sexual Difference
16. Reading Speculum Again: Narrative, Optics, Time, by Emanuela Bianchi
17. Indebtedness: A Sexuate Malaise, by Iván Hofman
18. Mysterics: Extinction and Emptiness, by Lynne Huffer
List of Contributors
Index