According to the colonial narrative, the entire world needs the West: Not only has the Western imaginary metaphorically rendered the colonized land as female to be saved from her environ/mental disorder, it has also given prominence to more literal narratives of rescue specifically of Western and non-Western women—from polygamous Arabs, libidinous Blacks, and macho Italians.

XREF: Connects to Spivak's 'white men saving brown women from brown men' trope in postcolonial theory.

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 617