The caged virgin
Subtitle: a Muslim woman's cry for reason
By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781847824752
Subjects: Women's rights; Women (Islamic law); Women in Islam; Social conditions; Large type books; Muslim women
Work titles: De maagdenkooi
Description: 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controversial book is a call to arms for the emancipation of women from religious and cultural oppression and from an outdated cult of virginity.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.
Notes: Originally published: London: Simon & Schuster, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the Dutch.