I recall leftist feminists criticism of the treatment of women in Islam back in the 90s, long before 9/11. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
Since one of the features of post-modernism is its tendency to dissolve boundaries, it is scarcely surprising that its characteristic approaches have combined with a wide variety of other impulses within biblical studies, most notably feminist criticism, but also various forms of ideological criticism (as we will see in the later discussion of cultural hermeneutics). (religion-online.org)
Modleski concludes: «By working on a variety of fronts for the survival and empowerment of women, feminist criticism performs an escape act dedicated to freeing women from all male captivity narratives, whether these be found in literature, criticism, or theory.» (religion-online.org)