In the Body of the World - Softcover

Ensler, Eve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345813235 ISBN 13: 9780345813237

Publisher: Random House Canada, 2013

Synopsis

From the bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues and one of Newsweek's 150 Women Who Changed the World, a visionary memoir of separation and connection--to the body, the self and 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 has 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 the 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. Soon after, she is diagnosed with uterine cancer, and though 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.

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About the Author

EVE ENSLER is an internationally bestselling author and an acclaimed playwright whose works for the stage include The Vagina Monologues, Necessary Targets, and The Good Body. She is the author of Insecure at Last, a political memoir, and the New York Times bestseller, I Am An Emotional Creature. Ensler is the founder of V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women and girls which has raised more than $85 million since 1989. Eve Ensler lives in Paris and New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Canada
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0345813235
• ISBN 13: 9780345813237
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240