 Simultaneously reading carefully and irreverently, continental feminists deepen the philosophical account of experience by integrating historically contextualized feeling into their projects, using and transmuting philosophical traditions and traditional figures, and interrogating everyday experiences in their embodied and cultural specificity. This work insists that meaning and social order function through unrecognized cooptation, subordination or exclusion in various intersectional constellations. In general, continental feminisms are less concerned with changing a woman’s place in a symbolic or social system, and more focused on upending such systems, as will be explored in more detail in the following sections.