Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2008
- ISBN
- 9780743288347
- Book Title
- Caged Virgin : an Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Item Length
- 8.4 in
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Author
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Genre
- Law, Political Science, Social Science
- Topic
- Islamic Studies, Human Rights, Civil Rights, Women’s Studies, Gender & the Law
- Item Weight
- 7.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
- Country of Origin
- United States
The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Free Press
ISBN-10
0743288343
ISBN-13
9780743288347
eBay Product ID (ePID)
62082432
Product Key Features
Book Title
Caged Virgin : an Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Islamic Studies, Human Rights, Civil Rights, Women’s Studies, Gender & the Law
Genre
Law, Political Science, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
7.9 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
297.082
Table Of Content
Contents Preface: Breaking Through the Islamic Curtain 1 Stand Up for Your Rights!:Women in Islam 2 Why Can’t We Take a Critical Look at Ourselves? 3 The Virgins’ Cage 4 Let Us Have a Voltaire 5 What Went Wrong?:A Modern Clash of Cultures 6 A Brief Personal History of My Emancipation 7 Being a Politician Is Not My Ideal 8 Bin Laden’s Nightmare:Interview with Irshad Manji 9 Freedom Requires Constant Vigilance 10 Four Women’s Lives 11 How to Deal with Domestic Violence More Effectively 12 Genital Mutilation Must Not Be Tolerated 13 Ten Tips for Muslim Women Who Want to Leave 14Submission: Part I 15 The Need for Self-Reflection Within Islam 16 Portrait of a Heroine as a Young Woman 17 A Call for Clear Thinking Notes Index
Synopsis
A world-renowned activist and feminist pulls no punches in her efforts to reform Islam in this international bestseller, available for the first time in English., Muslims who explore sources of morality other than Islam are threatened with death, and Muslim women who escape the virgins’ cage are branded whores. So asserts Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s profound meditation on Islam and the role of women, the rights of the individual, the roots of fanaticism, and Western policies toward Islamic countries and immigrant communities. Hard-hitting, outspoken, and controversial, “The Caged Virgin” is a call to arms for the emancipation of women from a brutal religious and cultural oppression and from an outdated cult of virginity. It is a defiant call for clear thinking and for an Islamic Enlightenment. But it is also the courageous story of how Hirsi Ali herself fought back against everyone who tried to force her to submit to a traditional Muslim woman’s life and how she became a voice of reform.Born in Somalia and raised Muslim, but outraged by her religion’s hostility toward women, Hirsi Ali escaped an arranged marriage to a distant relative and fled to the Netherlands. There, she learned Dutch, worked as an interpreter in abortion clinics and shelters for battered women, earned a college degree, and started a career in politics as a Dutch parliamentarian. In November 2004, the violent murder on an Amsterdam street of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, with whom Hirsi Ali had written a film about women and Islam called “Submission,” changed her life. Threatened by the same group that slew van Gogh, Hirsi Ali now has round-the-clock protection, but has not allowed these circumstances to compromise her fierce criticism of the treatment of Muslim women, of Islamic governments’ attempts to silence any questioning of their traditions, and of Western governments’ blindtolerance of practices such as genital mutilation and forced marriages of female minors occurring in their countries.Hirsi Ali relates her experiences as a Muslim woman so that oppressed Muslim women can take heart and seek their own liberation. Drawing on her love of reason and the Enlightenment philosophers on whose principles democracy was founded, she presents her firsthand knowledge of the Islamic worldview and advises Westerners how best to address the great divide that currently exists between the West and Islamic nations and between Muslim immigrants and their adopted countries. An international bestseller — with updated information for American readers and two new essays added for this edition — “The Caged Virgin” is a compelling, courageous, eye-opening work., Muslims who explore sources of morality other than Islam are threatened with death, and Muslim women who escape the virgins’ cage are branded whores. So asserts Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s profound meditation on Islam and the role of women, the rights of the individual, the roots of fanaticism, and Western policies toward Islamic countries and immigrant communities. Hard-hitting, outspoken, and controversial, The Caged Virgin is a call to arms for the emancipation of women from a brutal religious and cultural oppression and from an outdated cult of virginity. It is a defiant call for clear thinking and for an Islamic Enlightenment. But it is also the courageous story of how Hirsi Ali herself fought back against everyone who tried to force her to submit to a traditional Muslim woman’s life and how she became a voice of reform. Born in Somalia and raised Muslim, but outraged by her religion’s hostility toward women, Hirsi Ali escaped an arranged marriage to a distant relative and fled to the Netherlands. There, she learned Dutch, worked as an interpreter in abortion clinics and shelters for battered women, earned a college degree, and started a career in politics as a Dutch parliamentarian. In November 2004, the violent murder on an Amsterdam street of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, with whom Hirsi Ali had written a film about women and Islam called Submission , changed her life. Threatened by the same group that slew van Gogh, Hirsi Ali now has round-the-clock protection, but has not allowed these circumstances to compromise her fierce criticism of the treatment of Muslim women, of Islamic governments’ attempts to silence any questioning of their traditions, and of Western governments’ blind tolerance of practices such as genital mutilation and forced marriages of female minors occurring in their countries. Hirsi Ali relates her experiences as a Muslim woman so that oppressed Muslim women can take heart and seek their own liberation. Drawing on her love of reason and the Enlightenment philosophers on whose principles democracy was founded, she presents her firsthand knowledge of the Islamic worldview and advises Westerners how best to address the great divide that currently exists between the West and Islamic nations and between Muslim immigrants and their adopted countries. An international bestseller — with updated information for American readers and two new essays added for this edition — The Caged Virgin is a compelling, courageous, eye-opening work.
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