Well-intentioned and yet patronizing discourses on “white women saving brown women from brown men” abound and have a distinct history of their own. Such feminist discourses have been described as imperial feminism, as feminist orientalism in relation to Muslim women, and as outright racist.

XREF: Connects to Spivak's famous 'white men saving brown women from brown men' formulation and postcolonial feminist critiques like Mohanty's and Ahmed's work.

Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ Th…, loc. 560