In the Body of the World by Eve Ensler

In the Body of the World by Eve Ensler

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.

In the Body of the World calls on us all to embody our connection to and responsibility for the world.In the Body of the World calls on us all to embody our connection to and responsibility for the world.In the Body of the World calls on us all to embody our connection to and responsibility for the world.

Eve Ensler is an award-winning playwright and international bestselling author whose writings include The Vagina Monologues, The Good Body, Insecure at Last, and I Am an Emotional Creature, which has now been adapted for the stage as Emotional Creature. She founded V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls that has raised over $90 million for local organizations and activists and inspired the global action One Billion Rising. Ensler splits his time between France and New York City.

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ISBN 13	9781250043979
ISBN 10	1250043972
Title	In the Body of the World
Author	Eve Ensler
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	St Martin's Press
Year published	2014-02-04
Number of pages	240
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