 Phenomenological methods can also track this traffic between Continental feminism and queer theory. For example, Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology (2006) explores the use of phenomenology in queer studies by asking, among other questions, how to understand the “orientation” of sexual orientation as the way bodies are directed towards particular objects and away from others. In developing this queer use of phenomenology, Ahmed acknowledges her debt to feminist philosophers of the body such as Sandra Bartky, Iris Marion Young, Rosalyn Diprose, and Gail Weiss, as well as early phenomenologists such as de Beauvoir and phenomenologists of race including Linda Alcoff, Frantz Fanon, and Lewis Gordon.