Muslim women’s memoirs served as propaganda tools for US warmongering.

Evidence

This body of literature, perhaps best represented by … Reading Lolita in Tehran, points to legitimate concerns about the plight of Muslim women in the Islamic world and yet puts that predicament squarely at the service of American warmongering. … “Islam” in this particular reading is vile, violent, and above all abusive of women—and thus to fight against Islamic terrorism is to save Muslim women from their own men—“white men saving brown women from brown men,” as the distinguished postcolonial theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak puts it in her seminal essay — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 353

Categorization

• XREF: Spivak’s ‘white men saving brown women from brown men’ lines up with the reader’s standing interest in civilizing-mission critique and the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ piece’s themes of cross-cultural moralizing as political signaling.

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