Acknowledging the variety of contemporary feminist theories, this glossary includes entries on black, post-colonial, Italian and French feminisms, and draws on a range of fields including semiotics, psychoanalysis, structuralism, poststructuralism and deconstruction. The substantial entries on the key words of feminist discourse do not attempt to be definitive, but instead demonstrate the provisional and open-ended nature of the working concepts. The glossary contains cross-referenced entries on the most commonly-encountered terms.