The intimacy of the human voice allows us to recognize the individual as much as their physical appearance, revealing itself as an expression of their uniqueness. Nevertheless, philosophical tradition has made vocality a “great absent,” basing ontology on the abstract concept of Man and neglecting the real fact of the sexual difference of subjects, reducing the feminine to a subcategory of the masculine. The history of the voice thus constitutes the reverse side of the great questions that have run through philosophy from the very beginning. Cavarero retraces the origins of this removal, reconstructing its multiple linguistic, philosophical, and political implications.