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In the body of the world : a memoir

From the bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues and one of Newsweek's 150 Women Who Changed the World, a visionary memoir of separation and connection'to the body, the self, and the world Playwright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female body'how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet she spent much of her life disassociated from her own body'a disconnection brought on by her father's sexual abuse and her mother's remoteness. "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. While working in the Congo, she is shattered to encounter the horrific rape and violence inflicted on the women there. Soon after, she is diagnosed with uterine cancer, and through months of harrowing treatment, she is forced to become first and foremost a body'pricked, punctured, cut, scanned. It is then that all distance is erased. As she connects her own illness to the devastation of the earth, her life force to the resilience of humanity, she is finally, fully'and gratefully'joined to the body of the world. Unflinching, generous, and inspiring, Ensler calls on us all to embody our connection to and responsibility for the world.

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  • "In the body of the world"

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  • "From the bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues and one of Newsweek's 150 Women Who Changed the World, a visionary memoir of separation and connection'to the body, the self, and the world Playwright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female body'how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet she spent much of her life disassociated from her own body'a disconnection brought on by her father's sexual abuse and her mother's remoteness. "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. While working in the Congo, she is shattered to encounter the horrific rape and violence inflicted on the women there. Soon after, she is diagnosed with uterine cancer, and through months of harrowing treatment, she is forced to become first and foremost a body'pricked, punctured, cut, scanned. It is then that all distance is erased. As she connects her own illness to the devastation of the earth, her life force to the resilience of humanity, she is finally, fully'and gratefully'joined to the body of the world. Unflinching, generous, and inspiring, Ensler calls on us all to embody our connection to and responsibility for the world."@en
  • "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: GENERAL. From the bestselling author of "The Vagina Monologues" and one of "Newsweek"'s 150 Women Who Changed the World, a visionary memoir of separation and connection--to the body, the self, and the worldPlaywright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female body--how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet she spent much of her life disassociated from her own body--a disconnection brought on by her father's sexual abuse and her mother's remoteness. "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. While working in the Congo, she is shattered to encounter the horrific rape and violence inflicted on the women there. Soon after, she is diagnosed with uterine cancer, and through months of harrowing treatment, she is forced to become first and foremost a body--pricked, punctured, cut, scanned."
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "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."@en

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  • "Biographies"
  • "Biography"
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  • "American prose"
  • "Autobiografické prózy"
  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Americké prózy"
  • "Autobiographical prose"

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  • "Chŏlmang ŭi kkŭt esŏ sesang e an'gida : am ŭl ch'iyu hamyŏ ssŏ naeryŏgan yonggi wa hŭimang ŭi sŏnŏn"
  • "Dans le corps du monde"
  • "절망 의 끝 에서 세상 에 안기다 : 암 을 치유 하며 써 내려간 용기 와 희망 의 선언"
  • "Wo, zai shi jie de shen ti zhi zhong = In the body of the world"
  • "V těle světa : memoáry"
  • "In the body of the world : a memoir"@en
  • "In the body of the world : a memoir"
  • "我, 在世界的身体之中 = In the body of the world"
  • "In the body of the world : a memoir of cancer and connection"
  • "In the body of the world a memoir of cancer and connection"@en
  • "In the body of the world"
  • "In the body of the world"@en

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