Focusing on the gendered dimensions of such discourses reveals the complex intersections of feminist, antiracist, and leftist, as well as liberal and neoconservative agendas, and equips those who care with the tools for nuanced responses including analysis of the particular contexts producing and sustaining Islamophobia, and the possibility for informed and effective alliance building.

DEFINE: Explains the analytical framework — that gender-focused discourse analysis exposes the converging feminist, antiracist, leftist, liberal, and neoconservative agendas behind Islamophobic rhetoric.

Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ Th…, loc. 583