Gendered Islamophobia assigns opposite tropes to Muslim women and men

Evidence

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.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1244

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the gendered Islamophobia framework the reader would want for comparing state policies across France and India.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1244
• XREF: connects to: Muslim characters can break stereotype when faith is incidental to personality — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 537; Orientalist paintings of Muslim women reveal European male fantasy more than real conditions. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 199; Bush-era discourse gendered Muslim others as incapable of self-determination (+27 more)

Broader Connections

• Gendered Islamophobia imposes the most distorted stereotypes on veiled Muslim women. #expands (0.70)
• Gender shapes both how Muslims are racialized and how they respond #expands (0.65)
• Islamophobic experience varies with race, gender, location, and regime type #expands (0.50)