Botox, bulimia, breast implants: Eve Ensler, author of the
international sensation "The Vagina Monologues," is back, this time
to rock our view of what it means to have a "good body." "In the
1950s," Eve writes, girls were "pretty, perky. They had a blond
Clairol wave in their hair. They wore girdles and waist-pinchers. .
. . In recent years good girls join the army. They climb the
corporate ladder. They go to the gym. . . . They wear painful
pointy shoes. They don't eat too much. They . . . don't eat at all.
They stay perfect. They stay thin. I could never be good."
"
The Good Body "starts with Eve's tortured relationship with her own
"post-forties" stomach and her skirmishes with everything from Ab
Rollers to fad diets and fascistic trainers in an attempt get the
"flabby badness" out. As Eve hungrily seeks self-acceptance, she is
joined by the voices of women from L.A. to Kabul, whose obsessions
are also laid bare: A young Latina candidly critiques her
humiliating "spread," a stubborn layer of fat that she calls "a
second pair of thighs." The wife of a plastic surgeon recounts
being systematically reconstructed-inch by inch-by her
"perfectionist" husband. An aging magazine executive, still haunted
by her mother's long-ago criticism, describes her desperate pursuit
of youth as she relentlessly does sit-ups.
Along the way, Eve also introduces us to women who have found a
hard-won peace with their bodies: an African mother who celebrates
each individual body as signs of nature's diversity; an Indian
woman who transcends "treadmill mania" and delights in her plump
cheeks and curves; and a veiled Afghani woman who is willing to
risk imprisonment for a taste of ice cream. These are just a few of
the inspiring stories woven through Eve's global journey from
obsession to enlightenment. Ultimately, these monologues become a
personal wake-up call from Eve to love the "good bodies" we
inhabit.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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