|
Showing 1 - 12 of
12 matches in All Departments
|
Reckoning
Eve Ensler
|
R545
R426
Discovery Miles 4 260
Save R119 (22%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
The Apology (Paperback)
V (formerly Eve Ensler)
|
R329
R274
Discovery Miles 2 740
Save R55 (17%)
|
Ships in 9 - 15 working days
|
|
Reckoning (Hardcover)
V (formerly Eve Ensler)
|
R535
R437
Discovery Miles 4 370
Save R98 (18%)
|
Ships in 9 - 15 working days
|
2018 marks the twentieth anniversary of V-Day, the radical
grassroots movement to end violence against women and girls,
inspired by Eve Ensler's international sensation The Vagina
Monologues. This special edition features six
never-before-published monologues, a new foreword by National Book
Award winner Jacqueline Woodson, a new introduction by the author,
and a new afterword by One Billion Rising director Monique Wilson
on the stage phenomenon's global impact. A landmark work in women's
empowerment, as relevant as ever after a year marked by
unprecedented social and political protest in the face of
unapologetic racism and misogyny, The Vagina Monologues honours
women's sexuality in all its complexity, mystery and power. Witty
and irreverent, compassionate and wise, this award-winning
masterpiece gives voice to real women's deepest fantasies, fears,
anger and pleasure, and calls for a world where all women are safe,
equal, free and alive in their bodies. 'This play changed the
world. Seeing it changed my soul. Performing in it changed my life'
Kerry Washington
In her first new work since The Vagina Monologues, her Obie Award-winning smash hit, Eve Ensler tells the story of two American women, a Park Avenue psychiatrist and a human rights worker, who go to Bosnia to help women confront their memories of war and emerge deeply changed themselves. Necessary Targets is a groundbreaking play about women and war—about the violence of dark memories and the enduring resilience of the human spirit.
Melissa, an ambitious young writer, and J.S., a successful but unsatisfied middle-aged psychiatrist, have nothing in common beyond the methods they have been taught to distance themselves from other people. As J.S. begins to feel compassion for the women whose tragedies she has been sent to expose, she turns on Melissa, who finds safety in control. In an unexpected moment of revelation, J.S. and the women she is supposedly treating find a common ground, a place to be taught and a place to learn.
Necessary Targets has been staged in New York by Meryl Streep, Anjelica Huston, and Calista Flockhart, and performed in Sarajevo with Glenn Close and Marisa Tomei.
I have been exiled from my body. I was ejected at a very young age
and I got lost. 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 many years disassociated from
her own - a disconnection brought on by her father's sexual abuse
and her mother's remoteness. While working in the Congo, Ensler 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 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.
In this daring book, internationally acclaimed author and
playwright Eve Ensler offers fictional monologues and stories
inspired by girls around the globe. Fierce, tender, and smart, "I
Am an Emotional Creature" is a celebration of the authentic voice
inside every girl and an inspiring call to action for girls
everywhere to speak up, follow their dreams, and become the women
they were always meant to be.
This paperback edition features new material about starting a
discussion group based on the book.
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.
While performance poetry was male-dominated in its inception, in
recent years, women spoken word artists have become some of the
most popular voices nationwide. The combination of the eminent slam
movement and the upsurge of bold, underground feminisms created a
unique pool of women verbally challenging society on all fronts.
Word Warriors is the first all-women spoken word anthology,
featuring the most influential female spoken word artists in the
movement. Each contributor is a published writer, accomplished
performer, and has received numerous accolades for her
contributions to this art form. Contributors include Patricia Smith
and Eileen Myles, two of the most formidable and famous spoken word
foremothers. Tony Award--winner Sarah Jones talks about breaking
into the mainstream, while Michelle Tea contributes her thoughts on
class and sexual politics. We also hear the unique feminist
perspective of Palestinian-born and raised Suheir Hammad and
Trinidadian poet Lynne Procope, while Haitian artist Lenelle Moise
shares the frustrations of performing for a Western audience. Each
contributor provides a new and well-known spoken word piece,
accompanied by an original essay about a pivotal moment or
significant experience within her individual spoken word career,
offering an illuminating peek into the artist's thought process, a
rare chance for the reader to become intimate with the poet.
"Why has all this focus on security made me feel so much more
insecure? Nothing is secure. And this is the good news. But only if
you are not seeking security as the point of your life."-Eve Ensler
When her stage play "The Vagina Monologues" became a runaway hit
and an international sensation, Eve Ensler emerged as a powerful
voice and champion for women everywhere. Now the brilliant
playwright gives us her first major work written exclusively for
the printed page. Insecure at Last is a timely and urgent look at
our security-obsessed world, the drastic measures taken to keep us
safe, and how we can truly experience freedom by letting go of the
deceptive notion of vigilant "protection."
Ensler draws on personal experiences and candid interviews with
burka-clad women in Afghanistan; female prisoners in upstate New
York; survivors at the Superdome after Katrina; and anti-war
activist Cindy Sheehan-sharing unforgettable snapshots that
chronicle a post-9/11 existence in which hyped obsession for safety
and security has undermined our humanity. The us-versus-them
mentality, Ensler explains, has closed our minds and hardened our
compassionate hearts.
Provocative, illuminating, inspiring, and boldly envisioned,
Insecure at Last challenges us to reconsider what it means to be
free, to discover that our strength is not born out of that which
protects us. Ensler offers us the opportunity to reevaluate our
everyday lives, expose our vulnerability, and, in doing so,
experience true freedom and fulfillment.
"From the Hardcover edition."
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|