In the Body of the World
A Memoir of Cancer and Connection
$24.99
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
10 April 2018
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349011424 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349011427 |
| Author: | Eve Ensler |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 10 April 2018 |
| Weight: | 190g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 131mm x 17mm |
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A masterpiece … Truly one of the most courageous and original works of our time - Naomi Klein
The passion of her writing rattles your soul. This is true literature and true activism - Isabel AllendeRaw and powerful … unforgettable - New York TimesInspiring and courageously candid … a powerful and profound book - Huffington PostExtraordinary … necessary … an intense, riveting memoir - Boston GlobeAbout The Author
Eve Ensler
Eve Ensler is a playwright, performer and activist. She is the award-winning author of The Vagina Monologues, which has been translated into forty-five languages and performed in over one hundred countries. Eve is also the founder/artistic director of V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls, which has raised over $100 million in nineteen years. She is the recipient of many awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship Award in Playwriting, and has received numerous honorary degrees.
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