The Good Body - Acting Edition
Eve Ensler is back and has set her sight slightly higher with an intimate contemplation of her second greatest obsession: her tortured relationship with her post-forties stomach. Ensler toured the world asking women about their bodies and gives us their wild and wonderful and deeply moving...
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Eve Ensler is back and has set her sight slightly higher with an intimate contemplation of her second greatest obsession: her tortured relationship with her post-forties stomach. Ensler toured the world asking women about their bodies and gives us their wild and wonderful and deeply moving stories. She frames these stories with her own personal journey, serving up riotous excerpts from her lifelong dialogue with her stomach - a sassy and conniving antagonist in its own right. We follow her through the serial seduction of low-carb diets, ab rollers and personal trainers, to the wise words of a woman who taught her how to love her body, and see that it was good.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780822224471 (082222447X)
Publish date: October 21st 2010
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Pages no: 72
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Plays,
Drama,
Feminism,
Self Help,
Sexuality,
Womens,
Gender,
Gender Studies,
Womens Studies
Eve Ensler is absolutely phenomenal. This play speaks to anyone who has ever been insecure in their own body, an audience that encompasses most, if not all, of the planet. This was a great quick-read that really puts body issues into perceptive. I think my favorite part was Leah's section. I loved t...
My vagina is NOT a "shell" nor a "tulip" nor a "destiny." Similarly, my body is not a mother, nor The Mother, nor the world, nor my country. I don't find it beautiful to consider cellulite anti-communist. It's not only thin beautiful girls with nice tits who get raped, and gaining weight isn't re...
Reading break -- and taking a break from reading Women's Studies books. Not as good as the Vagina Monologues, but still a good read.