Intertwinings -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Ontological and Developmental Concerns: Difference and the Other -- 1. Merleau-Ponty, Bergson, and the Question of Ontology -- 2. Elemental Alterity: Levinas and Merleau-Ponty -- 3. The Developing Body: A Reading of Merleau-Ponty'sConception of Women in the Sorbonne Lectures -- Part II. Feminist Possibilities: Reading Irigaray,Reading Merleau-Ponty -- 4. Phenomenology in the Feminine: Irigaray's Relationship to Merleau-Ponty -- 5. The Language of the Lips, Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray:Toward a Culture of Difference -- Part III. Literary Enactments: Merleau-Ponty, Proust, and Stein -- 6. Among the Hawthorns: Marcel Proust and Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- 7. "Mixing the Outside with the Inside":Interior Geographies and Domestic Horizons in Gertrude Stein -- Part IV. Ethical Challenges: Recognition, Reciprocity,Violence, and Care -- 8. Beyond Recognition: Merleau-Ponty and an Ethics of Vision -- 9. Ethical Reciprocity at the Interstices of Communion and Disruption -- 10. Merleau-Ponty, Reciprocity,and the Reversibility of Perspectives -- 11. Entering the Place We Already Live:A Phenomenology of Female Voice -- 12. Resources for Feminist Care Ethics in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of the Body -- Part V. Sedimented Meanings: Conservation and Transformation -- 13. Can an Old Dog Learn New Tricks? Habitual Horizons in James,Bourdieu, and Merleau-Ponty -- 14. The Borderlands of Identity and Culture -- 15. Entwining the Body and the World: Architectural Design and Experience in the Light of "Eye and Mind" -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.