Playwright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life
to the female body--how to talk about it, how to protect and value
it. Yet she spent much of her life disassociated from her own
body--a disconnection brought on by her father's sexual abuse and
her mother's remoteness. "Because I did not, could not inhabit my
body or the Earth," she writes, "I could not feel or know their
pain."
But Ensler is shocked out of her distance. While working in the
Congo, she is shattered to encounter the horrific rape and violence
inflicted on the women there. Soon after, she is diagnosed with
uterine cancer, and through months of harrowing treatment, she is
forced to become first and foremost a body--pricked, punctured,
cut, scanned. It is then that all distance is erased. As she
connects her own illness to the devastation of the earth, her life
force to the resilience of humanity, she is finally, fully--and
gratefully--joined to the body of the world.
Unflinching, generous, and inspiring, Ensler's "In the Body of the
World" calls on us all to embody our connection to and
responsibility for the world.
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