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Intro -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: The Unsafe Streets -- Chapter 1: The Clock Turns Back -- Chapter 2: The Fifth Wave -- Chapter 3: Sexual Violence by Numbers -- Chapter 4: Taharrush Gamea (the Rape Game) Comes to Europe -- Chapter 5: How Women's Rights Are Being Eroded -- Chapter 6: Is the Law an Ass? -- Part II: The European Establishment Abrogates Responsibility for Women's Safety -- Chapter 7: Actions Have Consequences -- Chapter 8: The Broken Windows of Liberal Justice -- Chapter 9: The Playbook of Denial -- Chapter 10: The Feminist Predicament -- Part III: Clashing Civilizations, Revisited -- Chapter 11: The Modesty Doctrine -- Chapter 12: Culture Clash -- Chapter 13: Why Integration Has Not Happened -- Chapter 14: The Integration Industry and Its Failure -- Chapter 15: Grooming Gangs -- Part IV: Solutions, Fake and Real -- Chapter 16: "For You Who Are Married to a Child" -- Chapter 17: The Populist Problem -- Chapter 18: A New Approach to Integration -- Conclusion: The Road to Gilead -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Copyright -- About the Publisher.

Intro -- Half-title page -- Also by Ayaan Hirsi Ali -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I - A PROBLEM FAMILY -- 1. My Father -- 2. My Half Sister -- 3. My Mother -- 4. My Brother's Story -- 5. My Brother's Son -- 6. My Cousins -- 7. Letter to My Grandmother -- PART II - NOMAD AGAIN -- 8. Nomad Again -- 9. America -- 10. Islam in America -- PART III - SEX, MONEY VIOLENCE -- 11. School and Sexuality -- 12. Money and Responsibility -- 13. Violence and the Closing of the Muslim Mind -- PART IV - REMEDIES -- 14. Opening the Muslim Mind: An Enlightenment Project -- 15. Dishonor, Death, and Feminists -- 16. Seeking God but Finding Allah -- Conclusion: The Miye and the Magaalo -- Epilogue: Letter to My Unborn Daughter -- The AHA Foundation.

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controversial book is a call to arms for the emancipation of women from religious and cultural oppression and from an outdated cult of virginity.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

For most of human history, the other half of the species, women, were on the sidelines. Now they are central actors in all our societies as we negotiate the fraught transition from male‐dominated tradition to modernity and beyond. In this section we hear the voices of powerful women who in their own lives are making this historic shift.