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An edition of In the body of the world (2013)

In the body of the world

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The author of The Vagina Monologues describes being diagnosed and treated for uterine cancer and how her illness forced her to reconnect with her own body and gave her a better understanding of the resilience of humans.

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Metropolitan Books
Language
English
Pages
221

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Subjects

Cancer patients' writings, American, Cancer, American Authors, Patients, Social conditions, Women human rights workers, Biography, Women, Authors, biography, Cancer, patients, biography, Women, africa, Congo (democratic republic), social conditions, Women, social conditions

People

Eve Ensler (1953-)

Places

United States, Congo (Democratic Republic)

Times

20th century

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Table of Contents

Divided --
The beginning of the end, or In your liver --
Dr. Deb, or Congocancer --
Somnolence --
Cancer town --
Dr. Handsome --
What we don't know going into surgery --
This is where you will cross the Uji River --
Two questions --
Uterus = hysteria --
Falling, or Congo stigmata --
Lu --
Here's what's gone --
The stoma --
How'd I get it? --
Circumambulating --
Ice chips --
Patient --
The rupture/the Gulf spill --
Becoming someone else --
Beware of getting the best --
Stages/5.2b --
Infusion suite --
Arts and crafts --
The room with a tree --
A buzz cut --
Getting port --
The chemo isn't for you --
Tara, Kali, and Sue --
Crowd chemo --
The obstruction, or How tree saved me --
I was that girl who was supposed to be dead, or How pot saved me later --
Riding the lion --
Chemo day five --
On the couch next to me --
I love your hair, or The last time I saw my mother --
It was a beach, I think --
Shit --
Rada --
Death and Tami Taylor --
A burning meditation on love --
My mother dies --
De-ported --
Live by the vagina, die by the vagina --
Farting for Cindy --
It wasn't a foreboding --
Congo incontinent --
Leaking --
She will live --
Sue --
Joy --
Mother --
Second wind.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
812/.54
Library of Congress
CT275.E546 A3 2013, CT275.E546A3 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 221 pages ;
Number of pages
221

ID Numbers

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OL26489747M
Internet Archive
inbodyofworld0000ensl
ISBN 10
0805095187
ISBN 13
9780805095180
LCCN
2012041539
OCLC/WorldCat
811597425

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