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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
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."
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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."
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.
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.
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.
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