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The good body

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.

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  • "Addressing such issues as botox, bulimia, and breast implants, this play explores the anguish, obsessions, and vulnerabilities of women as they reflect on their relationship with their bodies, from an aging magazine executive and her desperate pursuit of youth to an L.A. woman being surgically reconstructed by her plastic surgeon spouse."
  • "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."@en
  • "Through skits and monologues, Eve Ensler explores how women view their bodies, how it impacts their daily lives and the way they react to the world around them."@en
  • "Botox, bulimia, breast implants: Eve Ensler is back, this time to rock our view of what it means to have a "good body.""@en
  • "Botox, bulimia, breast implants: Eve Ensler is back, this time to rock our view of what it means to have a "good body.""
  • "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.""@en

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  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
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  • "The good body"
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