The West frames colonized lands as female needing rescue from dark men

Evidence

Not only has the Western imaginary metaphorically rendered the colonized land as female to be saved from her environ/mental disorder, it has also given prominence to more literal narratives of rescue specifically of Western and non-Western women—from polygamous Arabs, libidinous Blacks, and macho Italians. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 617

Categorization

• XREF: This gendering of colonized land as female needing rescue from dark men connects to Edward Said’s Orientalism and the reader’s projection thesis — the land/body metaphor shifts seamlessly. — connects to: Orientalist paintings of enslaved fair-skinned women justified Western rescue missions
• QUESTION: The inclusion of ‘macho Italians’ alongside Arabs and Blacks in the rescue fantasy is striking — the hierarchy of whom the West’s saving masculinity must protect against is worth tracking across eras.