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    Contested Terrains of Women of Color and Third World Women
    (Hypatia, 2017) Fatima, Saba; Dotson, Kristie; Seodu Herr, Ranjoo; Khader, Serene J.; Nyanzi, Stella
    This particular Musing emerged from some uncomfortable and constructive conversations that took place at the 2015 FEAST conference as it explored the contested terrains of identifiers such as women of color, Third World women, transnational, and global South. FEAST (Feminist Ethics and Social Theory) is a longstanding US-based organization of feminist philosophers that holds biennial conferences. At each conference, FEAST encourages its participants to submit in response to a similarly titled call for papers for a special issue of a feminist-friendly journal, such as Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy. The 2015 FEAST conference call for papers was titled “Contested Terrains: Women of Color, Feminisms, and Geopolitics.” However, in the corresponding CFP for Hypatia, “Women of Color” had been replaced with “Third World Women.” Concerned debate ensued at the FEAST meeting and then continued through electronic correspondence. After much deliberation and communication, the title changed to its present iteration: “Women of Color and Third World Women.” I note this change both to record institutional memory and to mark the unresolved and misunderstood tensions that exist in feminist philosophy, a subfield explicitly committed to issues of women’s lives, social justice, and intersectionality. Although these ideals have been embraced theoretically, they are much harder to put into practice.