 Analytic and continental feminists share interests in avoiding exclusion in attempts to define women, in overcoming patriarchal forms of oppression and in securing the claims of women to know and to participate in epistemic projects. Analytic and continental feminists sometimes pursue these interests in different ways, sometimes in similar ways and sometimes in conversation with one another. Collectively they take up and further develop a rich history of liberal, Marxist, post-structuralist, hermeneutic and linguistic thought.