Life Stories #43: Phyllis Chesler

When Phyllis Chesler landed in Kabul with her Afghani husband in the early 1960s, she was ordered to surrender her American passport; soon, she found herself trapped in his family's home, forced into the seclusion of purdah. Her months of captivity set her on the path to a lifetime of feminist activism, but for decades she hid the full truth of what had happened, even from herself--until she set out to write her memoir, An American Bride in Kabul.