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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. In this stunning phenomenon that has swept the nation, Eve Ensler gives us real women`s stories of intimacy, vulnerability, and sexual self-discovery.
Celebrated as the bible for a new generation of women, "The Vagina Monologues has been performed in cities all across America and at hundreds of college campuses. It has inspired a dynamic grassroots movement--V-Day--to stop violence against women. Witty and irreverent, compassionate and wise, Eve Ensler`s Obie Award-winning masterpiece gives voice to 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.
Included in this special edition are testimonials--both joyous and heartbreaking--from young women who have performed "The Vagina Monologues at their colleges for V-Day, February 14, to raise money for organizations fighting to protect women.
"I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don`t think about them. . . . So I decided to talk to women about their vaginas, to do vagina interviews, which became vagina monologues. I talked with over two hundred women. I talked to old women, young women, married women, single women, lesbians, college professors, actors, corporate professionals, sex workers, African American women, Hispanic women, Asian American women, Native American women, Caucasian women, Jewish women. At first women were reluctant to talk. They were a little shy. But once they got going, you couldn`t stop them."
So begins Eve Ensler`s hilarious, eye-opening tour into the last frontier, the forbidden zone at the heart of every woman. Adapted from the award-winning one-woman show that`s rocked audiences around the world, this groundbreaking book gives voice to a chorus of lusty, outrageous, poignant, and thoroughly human stories, transforming the question mark hovering over the female anatomy into a permanent victory sign. With laughter and compassion, Ensler transports her audiences to a world we`ve never dared to know, guaranteeing that no one who reads The Vagina Monologues will ever look at a woman`s body the same way again.
ISBN - 9780345498601
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Pages : 222
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