Over three decades, Gillian Howie wrote at the forefront of philosophy and critical theory, before her untimely death in 2013. This interdisciplinary collection uses her writings to explore the productive, yet often resistant, interrelationship between feminism and critical theory, examining the potential of Howie's particular form of materialism. The contributors also bring to this debate a serious engagement with Howie's late turn towards philosophies of mortality, therapy and 'living with dying'. The volume considers how differently embodied subjects are positioned within public institutions, discourses and spaces, and the role of philosophy, art, film, photography, and literature, in facing situations such as sexual oppression and life-limiting illness.

Victoria Browne is Lecturer in Politics at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She has published articles on feminist philosophy, temporality, and memory, and is the author of Feminism, Time and Nonlinear History (2014).

Daniel Whistler is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, UK, and Humboldt Research Fellow at the Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität, Münster, Germany. He is the author of Schelling's Theory of Symbolic Language (2013) and co-author of The Right to Wear Religious Symbols (2013).