[1] A revised second edition of the text was published in 1992, under the title Amazons, Bluestockings, and Crones: A Feminist Dictionary.
[4] In a discussion of the pedagogical uses of A Feminist Dictionary in the literature classroom, scholars Barbara DiBernard and Sheila Reiter add on the work's origins: The same social conditions that necessitate college programs called “Women’s Studies,” bizarrely categorized as nontraditional, inspired its editors, Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler, to compile A Feminist Dictionary, originally published in 1985.
[6] The Dictionary has been used by scholars to address gaps in a variety of academic spheres including history, politics, economics, cultural studies, sexuality, and anatomy.
Professors Ilya Parkins and Eva C. Karpinski involve its definition of "invisibility" in the "Introduction" to their work In/Visibility: Absences/Presence in Feminist Theory.
[7] For example, the Feminist Dictionary has been used to develop research in medical practice, film studies, and experimental design ethics.