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The Good Bodyby Eve EnslerISBN 0099476525 (0-09-947652-5)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Body'Book summary: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 dont eat too much. They . . . dont eat at all. They stay perfect. They stay thin. I could never be good.
The Good Body starts with Eves 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 reconstructedinch by inchby her perfectionist husband. An aging magazine executive, still haunted by her mothers 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 natures 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 Eves 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. [via]More editions of The Good Body:
- The Good Body: ISBN 0812974735 (0-8129-7473-5)
Softcover, Villard Books - The Good Body: ISBN 0434013161 (0-434-01316-1)
Hardcover, Egmont Books, Limited - The Good Body: ISBN 037550284X (0-375-50284-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - The Good Body: ISBN 0099476525 (0-09-947652-5)
Softcover, Random House
- The Good Body: ISBN 0812974735 (0-8129-7473-5)
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Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security- Obsessed Worldby Eve EnslerISBN 1400063345 (1-4000-6334-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security- Obsessed World'Book summary: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 Sheehansharing 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. [via]More editions of Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security- Obsessed World:
A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayerby Eve Ensler , Mollie DoyleISBN 0345497910 (0-345-49791-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Necessary Targetsby Eve EnslerISBN 0375756035 (0-375-75603-5)
Softcover, Villard Books
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The Treatmentby Eve EnslerISBN 0822222027 (0-8222-2202-7)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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Until the Violence Stopsby Eve EnslerISBN 0345497902 (0-345-49790-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Vagina Monologuesby Eve EnslerISBN 1405501588 (1-4055-0158-8)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vagina Monologues (CD) : Read by the Author'Book summary:"I say vagina because I want people to respond," says playwright Eve Ensler, creator of the hilarious, disturbing soliloquies in The Vagina Monologues, a book based on her one-woman play. And respond they do--with horror, anger, censure, and sparks of wonder and pleasure. Ensler is on a fervent mission to elevate and celebrate this much mumbled-about body part. She asked hundreds of women of all ages a series of questions about their vaginas (What do you call it? How would you dress it?) that prompt some wondrous answers. Standouts among the euphemisms are tamale, split knish, choochi snorcher, Gladys Siegelman--Gladys Siegelman?--and, of course, that old standby "down there." "Down there?" asks a composite character springing from several older women. "I haven't been down there since 1953. No, it had nothing to do with [American president] Eisenhower." Two of the most powerful pieces include a jagged poem stitched together from the memories of a Bosnian woman raped by soldiers and an American woman sexually abused as a child who reclaims her vagina as a place of wild joy. [via]
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- Vagina Monologues: ISBN 0345498607 (0-345-49860-7)
Softcover, Villard Books - The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Edition: ISBN 0375756981 (0-375-75698-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Vagina Monologues: ISBN 0822217724 (0-8222-1772-4)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service - Vagina Monologues: ISBN 0375505121 (0-375-50512-1)
Hardcover, Villard Books - The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Edition: ISBN 0375505652 (0-375-50565-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Vagina Monologues: ISBN 0375750525 (0-375-75052-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The Vagina Monologues (CD) : Read by the Author: ISBN 1405501588 (1-4055-0158-8)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Vagina Monologues: ISBN 0345498607 (0-345-49860-7)
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Vagina Warriorsby Eve Ensler , Joyce TennesonISBN 0821261843 (0-8212-6184-3)
Softcover, Bulfinch Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vagina Warriors'Book summary:This collaborative effort between two activist artists is very well-meaning and does have some strong content. It evolved out of Ms. Ensler's conversations with women who approached her after the earliest performances of The Vagina Monologues, women who felt the need to witness to her, to tell their own experiences. However, very little of that detail exists in these many pages, and the effort feels more like an overgown pamphlet than a real book. That is a shame, considering the true excellence of Ensler's and photographer Joyce Tenneson's work, as well as the strength of the "V Day" cause that sales of this work help to raises funds for. In 2004, V Day had grown to 2300 events and had raised 25 million dollars to support women's rights. The Vagina Monologues gets much of its considerable power from the specificity, the viscerality and the humor of the play. Yet all of these elements are missing from this collaboration. The book is laid out rather cheesily, with portraits of "Vagina Warriors" next to very brief statements that speak to the idea of the Vagina Warrior in modern society. In the end, this is a souvenir, not really much of a book. Ensler's text is minimal, and the photographs are not even given full-page treatment, nor are they printed particularly well. But if what you want is a souvenir for a truly amazing movement, it's certainly fine as such. --Mike McGonigal [via]
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Monologos De LA Vaginaby Eve Ensler , Anna PlataISBN 0971525625 (0-9715256-2-5)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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