 Is there any way to rescue them? Butler is not wedded to the idea that we need a stable conception of women. Rather, she wonders whether we should entertain “a radical critique that seeks to free feminist theory from the necessity of having to construct a single or abiding ground,” and she asks whether “the construction of the category of women as a coherent and stable subject” is “an unwitting regulation and reification of gender relations” (1990, 5). Other feminists making use of continental sources are less sure about this conclusion. Iris Marion Young (1994) turns to Jean-Paul Sartre’s distinction between a series and a group. For Sartre, a group is a collection of people who consciously undertake a common project together where the project typically is one best taken up by this sort of group (1994, 724). Storming the Bastille is an example. In contrast, a series is less organized and not at all self-conscious; here the example is people waiting for a bus. These individuals possess a common interest in traveling along a certain route, but they have, or need have, no direct relation to one another. This series could become a group were individuals within it to start complaining about the length of time they wait for the bus, and they could undertake together some sort of collective protest. Nonetheless, without this move toward collective action, they remain isolated from one another and focused on the bus, which Sartre and Young call a practico-inert reality, rather than on each other. 