In the body of the world
a memoir
by Eve Ensler
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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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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 conditionsPeople
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In the body of the world
2019, Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
in English
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0822239167 9780822239161
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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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