Coinciding with the appearance of a critical mass of feminist bioethics scholarship, in 1993 the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) was founded to provide a congenial home for feminists working in bioethics, to encourage international cross-fertilization, and to influence the agenda of mainstream bioethics. FAB aims to foster development of a more inclusive theory of bioethics at both the academic and grassroots levels. Three goals have been central: extension of bioethical theory to integrate feminist concerns; development of theory to include analyses not just of gender but also of class, ethnicity and other social categories; and creation of new strategies and methodologies that include socially marginalized experiences and perspectives. The articulation of these objectives represents an effort to systematize prevailing commonalities among feminists working in the field and stimulate further collaborative work. FAB’s central focus includes adaptation of the theoretical grounding of bioethics to more fully reflect key components of moral life, including power differences that structure physician/patient and researcher/subject relationships, the influence of wider social and institutional relationships, and cross-cultural perspectives on bioethical issues that reflect intersections between specific technologies and the social, political and economic structures within which they are embedded. 