To help clarify the operation of ‘xeno’ in xenofeminism, we can draw from etymology of the word. The meaning of the Greek word ‘xenos’ has a triple signification, which is often obscured in its simplistic reduction to that which is ‘foreign’, and can be understood as such:
a) Xenos, of course does refer to foreignness, but is more precisely someone outside a particular known community, with no clearly defined relationship; or something outside familiar modes of identification or epistemic classification;
b) Xenos as an Enemy/Stranger, or as something unknown which is potentially a promise or a threat;
c) Xenos as a guest friendship (as opposed to Philos, the root of philosophy, referring to local or known friends), or a guest relationship to that unknown thing or idea.
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