Renowned author, scholar, activist, and journalist, Dr. Phyllis Chesler has been an independent and politically incorrect truth teller for nearly half a century.
As a powerful advocate for global women's rights, one who witnessed firsthand the stunning injustices of gender apartheid in Afghanistan during the early 1960s, Phyllis Chesler understands the struggles that Muslim women face in their tribal, patriarchal societies. Her power is her voice, and how she clearly, boldly, and unapologetically uses it to denounce oppression no matter where she sees it--and no matter what the consequences of such truth telling are.
In Islamic Gender Apartheid: Exposing a Veiled War Against Women, Dr. Chesler writes with journalistic passion and ease. These pieces are meant for a popular audience and bear frontline moral witness to the normalization of misogynist atrocities in our time. This volume covers a variety of topics, including the burqa and face veil, child marriage, polygamy, honor-based violence, FGM, state-sponsored and vigilante acid disfiguring and stoning, forced female suicide killers, and other injustices that have been minimized or denied by Western media and governments.
Here you will find portraits of Muslim and ex-Muslim anti-Islamists who are well known in the West, such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nonie Darwish, and Asra Nomani, and less known, but extraordinary women heroes in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Far East, who have risked death as they defied the bans on trouser-wearing, forced face-veiling, remaining in a violent marriage, choosing their own religion, and facing harassment and death for the right to work outside the home. This volume is a tremendous service to history - a witness at the critical time when women s rights will either advance worldwide, or the hard-won gains of western women will begin to erode due to the thoughtless mass acceptance of multiculturalism.
Relevant, thoughtful, informative, Islamic Gender Apartheid: Exposing a Veiled War Against Women is a compelling journalistic account of our perilous times from an award-winning author and scholar.
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D, is an Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at City University of New York. She is a best-selling author, a legendary feminist leader, a retired psychotherapist an d an expert courtroom witness. Her work has been translated into many European languages and into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Hebrew.
Dr. Chesler is a co-founder of the Association for Women in Psychology (1969), the National Women's Health Network (1974), and the Original Women of the Wall (1989). She is also a Fellow at The Middle East Forum. Dr. Chesler was an early 1970s abolitionist theorist and activist: She wrote and delivered speeches which opposed rape, incest, pornography, sex and reproductive prostitution, sex trafficking, and gender-based double standards of justice.
Requiem is her nineteenth book. She is the author of the landmark feminist classic Women and Madness (1972, 2018) as well as many other notable books including About Men (1978); With Child: A Diary of Motherhood (1979); Mothers on Trial: The Battle for Children and Custody (1986, 2011); Sacred Bond: The Legacy of Baby M (1988); Letters to a Young Feminist (1998, 2018) Woman's Inhumanity to Woman (2002); and Women of the Wall: Claiming Sacred Ground at Judaism's Holy Site (2002).
After publishing The New Anti-Semitism (2003, 2015), she published The Death of Feminism: What's Next in the Struggle for Women's Freedom (2005) and An American Bride in Kabul (2013), which won a National Jewish Book Award. She published Islamic Gender Apartheid: Exposing A Veiled War Against Women (2017), A Family Conspiracy: Honor Killings (2018) and, that same year, a memoir: A Politically Incorrect Feminist.
Since the Intifada of 2000, and especially since 9/11, Dr. Chesler has focused on the rise of anti-Semitism, the demonization of both Israel and the West, and the nature of terrorism; the rights of women, dissidents, and gays in the Hindu, Sikh, and Islamic world. Dr. Chesler has published four studies about honor killings, and penned a position paper on why the West should ban the burqa; these studies have all appeared in Middle East Quarterly. Based on her studies, she has submitted affidavits for Muslim and ex-Muslim women who are seeking asylum or citizenship based on their credible belief that their families will honor-kill them. She has archived most of her articles at her website: www.phyllis-chesler.com.
Dr. Chesler has been profiled in encyclopedias, including Feminists Who Have Changed America, Jewish Women in America, and in the latest Encyclopedia Judaica.
Dr. Chesler has published widely over the years in the mainstream media (New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Times of London, London Guardian, Globe and Mail, etc.), as well as at FOX, FrontpageMag, Israel National News, Jewish Press, Middle East Quarterly, New York Post, PJ Media, Breitbart, Tablet Magazine, Quillette, Times of Israel, etc.
She lives in Manhattan and is a very proud mother and grandmother.
