The Vagina Monologues - The V-day Edition

Literature & Fiction

EVE ENSLER

Dramas & Plays

Random House]

Necessary Targets - Acting Edition

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Botox, bulimia, breast implants: Eve Ensler, author of the international sensation The Vagina Monologues, is back, this time to rock our view of what it means to have a ?good body.? ?In the 1950s,? Eve writes, girls were ?pretty, perky. They had a blond Clairol wave in their hair. They wore girdles and waist-pinchers. . . . In recent years good girls join the army. They climb the corporate ladder. They go to the gym. . . . They wear painful pointy shoes. They don?t eat too much. They . . . don?t eat at all. They stay perfect. They stay thin. I could never be good.?The Good Body starts with Eve?s tortured relationship with her own ?post-forties? stomach and her skirmishes with everything from Ab Rollers to fad diets and fascistic trainers in an attempt get the ?flabby badness? out. As Eve hungrily seeks self-acceptance, she is joined by the voices of women from L.A. to Kabul, whose obsessions are also laid bare: A young Latina candidly critiques her humiliating ?spread,? a stubborn layer of fat that she calls ?a second pair of thighs.? The wife of a plastic surgeon recounts being systematically reconstructed?inch by inch?by her ?perfectionist? husband. An aging magazine executive, still haunted by her mother?s long-ago criticism, describes her desperate pursuit of youth as she relentlessly does sit-ups.Along the way, Eve also introduces us to women who have found a hard-won peace with their bodies: an African mother who celebrates each individual body as signs of nature?s diversity; an Indian woman who transcends ?treadmill mania? and delights in her plump cheeks and curves; and a veiled Afghani woman who is willing to risk imprisonment for a taste of ice cream. These are just a few of the inspiring stories woven through Eve?s global journey from obsession to enlightenment. Ultimately, these monologues become a personal wake-up call from Eve to love the ?good bodies? we inhabit.

The Good Body - Acting Edition

This program includes a bonus interview with Tony Award-winning author Eve Ensler and Audible Editor Rachel Smalter Hall, as they talk about the inspiration behind this story. Like millions of women, Eve Ensler has been waiting much of her lifetime for an apology. Sexually and physically abused by her father, Eve has struggled her whole life from this betrayal, longing for an honest reckoning from a man who is long dead. After years of work as an anti-violence activist, she decided she would wait no longer; an apology could be imagined, by her, for her, to her. The Apology, written by Eve from her father's point of view in the words she longed to hear, attempts to transform the abuse she suffered with unflinching truthfulness and compassion and an expansive vision for the future. Remarkable and original, The Apology is an acutely transformational look at how, from the wounds of sexual abuse, we can begin to re-emerge and heal. It is revolutionary, asking everything of each of us: courage, honesty, and forgiveness.

Apology, The

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

I decided to talk to women about their vaginas, to do vagina interviews, which became vagina monologues ...At first women were reluctant to talk. They were a little shy. But once they got going, you couldn't stop them. Women secretly love to talk about their vaginas. They get very excited, mainly because no one's ever asked them before.' Eve Ensler A poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. Hailed as the bible for a new generation of women, it has been performed in cities and colleges throughout the world, and has inspired a dynamic grassroots movement -- V-Day -- to stop violence against women. Witty and irreverent, compassionate and wise, Eve Ensler's award-winning masterpiece gives voice to real women's deepest fantasies and fears, guaranteeing that no one who reads it will ever look at a woman's body, or think of sex, in quite the same way again.

The Vagina Monologues

Contemporary

Virago

In The Body Of The World

Publicado em 140 países, Os monólogos da vagina marcou toda uma geração com a visão hilariante e reveladora de Eve Ensler a respeito do que até então era considerada uma zona proibida, “aquela-que-não-devia-ser-nomeada”, um mistério até mesmo para as próprias mulheres. Adaptada a partir da premiada peça teatral off-Broadway que se tornou sucesso absoluto em todo o mundo, tendo inclusive diversas montagens no Brasil, esta obra revolucionária reúne uma série de histórias luxuriosas, emocionantes, singelas e, sobretudo, humanas, que transformaram o ponto de interrogação que costumava pairar sobre a anatomia feminina em um permanente sinal de vitória.Vinte anos depois de seu lançamento, Eve Ensler mostra, em um prefácio inédito, por que o seu texto continua mais atual – e necessário – do que nunca. Mesclando gargalhadas e lágrimas, a autora transporta seu público para um universo que ainda hoje muitos hesitam em desbravar, garantindo que qualquer um que leia Os monólogos da vagina jamais volte a olhar para o corpo de uma mulher da mesma maneira.“Eu estava preocupada com as vaginas. Preocupada com o que a gente pensa das vaginas, e mais preocupada ainda com o que a gente não pensa. Então, resolvi falar com mulheres a respeito do assunto. Essas conversas viraram Os monólogos da vagina . Falei com mais de duzentas mulheres: mulheres mais velhas, mais novas, casadas, solteiras, lésbicas, professoras universitárias, atrizes, executivas, profissionais do sexo, mulheres afro-americanas, hispânicas, asiáticas, caucasianas, judias. De início, elas ficavam meio relutantes, um pouco tímidas. Mas, quando começavam a falar, aí não paravam mais.”

Os Monologos da Vagina (Em Portugues do Brasil)

Globo

‫الاعتذار‬ (Arabic Edition)

إيف إنسلر

دار الكرمة

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