 In de Beauvoir’s work, both broadly analytic and broadly continental feminist approaches find resources for raising questions about who women are, how they might be defined and for what purposes. Both approaches are interested in developing a definition of women that is inclusive, sensitive to intersecting oppressions and useful to feminist struggles. There are affinities in some of the ways theorists in each tradition try to accomplish these goals: for example between Garry’s appeal to family resemblances and Young’s appeal to series that can become groups. Critics within each tradition also overlap in questioning the exclusions proffered definitions involve. 