Often, when a person is writing about two things that are similar, they will be written informally with a slash between them to show the connection. Modern Feminists/Post feminists Houses/apartments Sad/depressed Happy/joyful. It is informal and only recently have people begun to VERY informally, say "slash" when SPEAKING.

Generally Means AND-OR. i.e either AND or OR. It is generally shown by its symbol (/) but sometimes (very rarely) people say it in words too.

technically, it's an "OR", but I guess here it can work as "and"