 Accordingly, this entry will take Continental feminism to include the following distinct yet related set of issues and areas: (1) the feminist use of figures, traditions, and approaches of phenomenology/existentialism, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism (deconstruction and genealogy), and critical theory; (2) critical interventions into the assumptions about sex, gender, class, race, ability, religion, and age endemic to European philosophy; and (3) interpretations of hitherto underrepresented figures and methods of feminism from a transContinental and transAtlantic perspective that establish new, abandoned, or previously delegitimated genealogies for feminist thought.