In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (691 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250043972 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Not for the Squeamish judith straffin Not for the squeamish or the fainthearted. Not for the indifferent or the complacent. Eve Ensler, famous for her play, The Vagina Monologues, has written an impassioned memoir which uses her personal story of enduring treatment for a huge, Stage IV uterine tumor, as a metaphor for our destruction of our planet and for our toleration of the atrocity of gang rape as a weapon of war. Again and again, Ensler shows us the links between . "Great book, I am a hospice nurse and though" according to Anna Bertolucci. Great book, I am a hospice nurse and though this book was hard to read I am so thankful for Eve, thank you and bless you!. "Raw Courage" according to Susan R. Meyer. I picked up this book because I'm impressed with Ensler's work. I've been moved by the Vagina Monologues. I'm amazed by her efforts to improve conditions for women all over the world. Reading a memoir of hers made sense. I didn't know about the part of her life she chronicles in this book. I was simply blown away to be immediately immersed in her experience with cancer. She is so clear and graphic that I felt like I was by her side
"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. Soon after, she is diagnosed with uterine cancer, and through months of harrowing treatment, she is forced to become first and foremost a bodypricked, punctured, cut, scanned. While working in the Congo, she is shattered to encounter the horrific rape and violence inflicted on the women there. As she connects her own illness to the devastation of the earth, her life force to the resilience of humanity, she is finally, fullyand gratefullyjoined 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.. Yet she spent much of her life disassociated from her own bodya disconnection brought on by her father's sexual abuse and her mother's remoteness. Playwright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female bodyhow to talk about it, how to protect and value it. It is then that all distance is erased
Ensler lives in Paris and New York City.. Eve Ensler is an internationally bestselling author and an award-winning playwright whose works include The Vagina Monologues, The Good Body, Insecure at Last, and I Am an Emotional Creature, since adapted for the stage as Emotional Creature. She
The prolonged war over copper, gold, and coltan—minerals used in computers and cell phones—has claimed eight million lives and led to the rape and torture of hundreds of thousands of women. Ensler’s philanthropic organization, V-Day, was beginning to build an urgently needed women’s center there when she was diagnosed with uterine cancer. --Donna Seaman . As explicit as her blood-and-pain chronicles are, this is a ravishing book of revelation and healing, lashing truths and deep emotion, courage and perseverance, compassion and generosity. In a series of medical nightmares, she sustains the same harrowing wounds as Congolese women who were gang-raped and is flooded by memories of her father’s sexual assaults. Warm, funny, furious, and astute, as well as poetic, passionate, and heroic, Ensler harnesses all that she lost and learned to articulate a galvanizing vision of the essence of life: “The only salvation is kindness.” HIGH-