Mary C. Rawlinson is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. She is the coeditor (with Ellen K. Feder and Emily Zakin) of Derrida and Feminism: Recasting the Question of Woman and (with Shannon Lundeen) of The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics. Sabrina L. Hom is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah. Serene Khader is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, SUNY. She is the author of Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowerment.

Introduction
The Work of Sexual Difference
Serene J. Khader

PART I: Alternatives to Masculine Genealogies

1. Orestes with Oedipus: Psychoanalysis and Matricide
Cheryl Lawler

2. Beyond the Madonna: Revisiting Luce Irigaray's Aesthetics
Elaine Miller

3. Animality and Descent: Irigaray's Nietzsche, on Leaving the Sea
Penelope Deutsher

PART II: Overcoming Binary Oppositions

4. Beyond the Vertical and the Horizontal: Spirituality, Space, and Alterity in the Work of Luce Irigaray
Gail M. Schwab

5. Space and Irigaray's Theory of Sexual Difference
D. Rita Alfonso

6. Can Luce Irigaray's Notion of Sexual Difference Be Applied to Transsexual and Transgender Narratives?
Danielle Poe

PART III: The Ethical Irigaray

7. The Incomplete Masculine: Engendering the Masculine of Sexual Difference
Britt-Marie Schiller

8. A Bridge Between Three Forever Irreducible to Each Other(s)
Karen Houle

PART IV: Women and Interiority

9. Sexuality on the Market: An Irigarayan Analysis of Female Desire as Commodity
Breanne Fahs

10. Fishing and Thinking, or An Interiority of My Own: Luce Irigaray's Speculâme de l'autre femme (renversé, inversé, rétroversé)
Claire Potter

11. Autonomy and Divinity: A Double-Edged Experiment
Morny Joy

PART V: Women as Political Agents

12. Antigone Falters: Reflections on the Sustainability of Revolutionary Subjects
Sabrina L. Hom

13. Antigone's Exemplarity: Irigaray, Hegel, and Excluded Grounds as Constitutive of Feminist Theory
Tina Chanter

Index