Chesler, Phyllis

Eighteen-year-old Phyllis Chesler, a Jewish-American girl from Brooklyn, fell in love with a wealthy college Afghan student in 1961. They married and went to Afghanistan where her American passport was taken away and she became the property of her husband's polygamous family. Despite the fact that she was trapped she managed to escape. This book is her memories of that time.

Argues that feminism has lost the power to improve the lives and opportunities of women around the world, focusing on Islamic gender apartheid in the Islamic world and calling for a new feminism that requires independent, not group, thought.