Consider the following thought-provoking questions taken from "A Totally Unauthorized Reading Group Guide to Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali" by Janice Harayda:
1. Some of the practices that Hirsi Ali describes, such as female circumcision, have had wide publicity in the U.S. and may have lost some of their shock value. How did Infidel affect your view of them?
2. Did Infidel change your views of any other events that have had extensive media coverage in the U.S., such as tensions in Western Europe between longtime residents and recent immigrants? How did it affect your views?
3. One of the themes of Infidel is the liberating power of books. Hirsi Ali says that at the Muslim Girls’ Secondary School in Nairobi, she read books like 1984, Wuthering Heights and Cry, the Beloved Country. “Later on there were sexy books: Valley of the Dolls, Barbara Cartland, Danielle Steele [sic]. All these books, even the trashy ones, carried with them ideas – races were equal, women were equal to men – and concepts of freedom, struggle, and adventure that were new to me.” [Page 69] Some people might say women aren’t equal in the novels like those of Susann and Steel – that the goal of their female characters is above all to get a man. Is Hirsi Ali is accurately characterizing any of those books or authors that you’ve read?
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I have been reading the comments on EAT,PRAY,LOVE.
I have found out that it is been publicized through Oprah, therefore the marketing is done. That means MANY people will be reading it.
I suggest this other book that goes on the same line:
"Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large i... by Rita Golden Gelman"
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