Diprose argues that the usual approaches to ethics perpetuate the mechanisms that subordinate women, and argues for a new ethics of sexual difference which better locates the mechanisms of discrimination and the means to subvert them.

Introduction 1. Feminism and the Ethics of Reproduction 2. Ethics, Embodiment and Sexual Difference 3. Hegel's Restricted Economy of Difference 4. Sexual Difference Beyond Duality 5. Nietzsche on Sexed Embodiment 6. Biomedical Ethics and Lived, Sexed Bodies Conclusion