Gradually, mainstream bioethics journals and organizations began to recognize feminist approaches. Several journals featured special issues by feminist scholars spanning a cluster of topics including AIDS, reconfiguration of the principle of autonomy, gender issues in psychiatry, and the global dimensions of feminist bioethics. Bioethics conferences in a number of countries began to schedule sessions that explicitly addressed feminist approaches and topics, and more feminists were included on the general program, while the market for more feminist-friendly teaching texts has expanded and publishers have been responsive (see e.g., Teays and Purdy 2001; Fulford, Dickenson and Murray 2002; Baylis, Downie, Hoffmaster and Sherwin 2004; Singer and Viens 2008). These and similar efforts resulted in feminist writings on an increasing diversity of substantive topics beginning to appear in bioethics journals and anthologies. Feminist critiques of bioethical theory also gained some currency, though they tended to be classified among “alternative” approaches (along with communitarianism, casuistry, and the ethics of care). Thus the healthcare priorities of women and other underserved groups still received disproportionally little bioethical attention. And despite these advances, concerns persisted that feminists were under-represented on governmental panels formulating public policy. The strategic importance of feminist involvement at the policy-making level to redress injustices and promote more equitable policy choices was emphasized by Sherwin and Baylis (2003), while other feminists have highlighted the need to reframe public policy and the research that underpins it to include the social impact of gender and other biases (Rogers 2006; Mahowald 2006).