Rescuing women from culture splits women into saved and to-be-saved categories.

Evidence

When gender is placed in opposition to culture, and women’s status becomes linked to the triumph of the individual over the group, two categories of women are brought into existence: those who have successfully made it out of community and culture and others who are to be assisted into modernity. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 360

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• DEEPTHINKING: A dense, reusable analytic move — the gender-vs-culture opposition generating a two-tier categorization of women — that generalizes far beyond this case.
• XREF: Connects to Gayatri Spivak’s ‘white men saving brown women from brown men’ and to the civilizing-mission logic in the Wikan story referenced here.

Related

• Feminist dualisms split women into saved and to-be-saved categories (similarity 0.86)