Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Hirsi Ali, Ayaan, 1969-

Title The caged virgin : an emancipation proclamation for women and Islam / Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Imprint New York : Free Press, 2008.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  297.082 HIR    Check Shelf
Edition Free Press trade pbk. ed.
Description 188 pages ; 22 cm
Note "Includes two new essays"--Cover.
Contents Breaking through the Islamic curtain -- Stand up for your rights!: women in Islam -- Why can't we take a critical look at ourselves? -- The virgins' cage -- Let us have a Voltaire -- What went wrong?: a modern clash of cultures -- A brief personal history of my emancipation -- Being a politician is not my ideal -- Bin Laden's nightmare: interview with Irshad Manji -- Freedom required constant vigilance -- Four women's lives -- How to deal with domestic violence more effectively -- Genital mutilation must not be tolerated -- Ten tips for Muslim women who want to leave -- Submission: part I -- The need for self-reflection within Islam -- Portrait of a heroine as a young woman -- A call for clear thinking.
Summary 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 Hirsi Ali's 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. This controversial book is a call to arms for the emancipation of women from religious and cultural oppression and from an outdated cult of virginity.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. She relates her experiences as a Muslim woman so that oppressed Muslim women can take heart and seek their own liberation.--From publisher description.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-182) and index.
Subject Women in Islam.
Women's rights -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Women's rights -- Islamic countries.
Women -- Islamic countries -- Social conditions.
Women (Islamic law)
Muslim women -- Netherlands.
Women in Islam.
Women's rights -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Women's rights -- Islamic countries.
Women -- Social conditions. -- Islamic countries.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. (Islamic law)
Muslim women -- Netherlands.
Muslim women. (OCoLC)fst01030996
Women in Islam. (OCoLC)fst01177797
Women (Islamic law) (OCoLC)fst01735659
Women -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01176947
Women's rights. (OCoLC)fst01178818
Women's rights -- Religious aspects -- Islam. (OCoLC)fst01178834
Islamic countries. (OCoLC)fst01244130
Netherlands. (OCoLC)fst01204034
MUSLIM WOMEN.
ISLAM.
WOMEN'S RIGHTS.
SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
ISLAMIC LAW.
Added Title Maagdenkooi. English
ISBN 9780743288347
0743288343
-->
Add a Review