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

In the body of the world

a memoir

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

In the body of the world

a memoir

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Playwright, author and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to thinking about the female body--how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet, as she recounts in this inspiring memoir, she spent much of her life disassociated from her own body--a disconnection first brought on by her father's battering and sexual abuse and her mother's remoteness. But Ensler is shocked out of her distance. On a trip to 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 through months of harrowing treatment, she is forced to become first and foremost a body.

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Pages
221

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In the body of the world
2019, Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
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In the body of the world: a memoir
2013, Random House Canada
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Table of Contents

Scans
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
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
In the body of the world.

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Issued also in electronic format.

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Toronto
Copyright Date
2013

Classifications

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

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 221 pages
Number of pages
221

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32107720M
Internet Archive
inbodyofworldmem0000ensl
ISBN 10
0345813235
ISBN 13
9780345813237
OCLC/WorldCat
820617185

Work Description

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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