Minae Inahara is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Clinical Philosophy in the Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University, Japan. Her research interests are in the fields of French feminism (especially Irigaray and Kristeva), feminist phenomenology, philosophy of the body, phenomenology of disability, medical humanities, and philosophical practices. Her major publications include the monograph Abject Love: Undoing the Boundaries of Physical Disability (VDM Verlag, 2009), and the articles "The rejected voice: towards intersubjectivity in speech language pathology" (2013) in Disability & Society 28(1)), "The Voice of Pain: The Semiotic and Embodied Subjectivity" (2012 in Embodied Selves), “This Body Which is Not One: The Body, Femininity and Disability” (2009 in Body & Society 15(1)).