Analyzing gendered Islamophobia through women alone leaves male-centered work undone

Evidence

Here I want to explore more specifically how Muslim women are at the center of Islamophobic discourses. This focus on women clearly depends on their relationship with Muslim men; however, masculinity and the threat of dangerous Muslim men is not directly explored as the balance to women in this essay. Much of that work still needs to be done. Thinking about Islamophobia in gendered terms and as a gendered construction is only a first step in this direction. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 491

Categorization

• QUESTION: The author openly flags masculinity as unexplored territory — a gap worth chasing: how does the ‘dangerous Muslim man’ trope function as the unexamined core of gendered Islamophobia?
• XREF: connects to: Christian horror at Muslim divorce masked an unspoken fear of polyandry