Western feminism’s emancipatory desire is complicit with colonial power

Evidence

[T]he imperialist feminist desire to emancipate the Muslim woman is part of a system based on the disciplining and normalizing gaze of modern colonial disciplinary power. … The modern woman is first and foremost an imperialist. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 194

Categorization

• XREF: Builds the thread from ch6 on feminist rescue politics serving empire. — connects to: Colonial-native feminist rhetoric aimed to train women as caregivers, not liberate them — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 148; Imperial feminism frames saving Muslim women as the West’s civilizing mission — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 294; Imperial feminism justifies conquest without improving colonized women’s conditions — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 159 (+1 more)
• SHARE: The aphoristic ‘the modern woman is first and foremost an imperialist’ is worth sending to a fellow scholar of postcolonial feminism.