Gendered Islamophobia theory holds that state and societal tropes ascribed to Muslim women are oppositional to those assigned to Muslim men. It elucidates how prevailing ideas of "submissiveness" and "subordination" attached to Muslim womanhood, and the grand aim of "liberating Muslim women" that follows, are rooted in an imperial epistemology that caricatures Muslim men as "violent," "oppressive," and "tyrannical."

DEFINE: Defines 'gendered Islamophobia theory' and its core mechanism linking gendered caricatures to imperial epistemology.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 1244