Eve Ensler

In this daring book, internationally acclaimed author and playwright Eve Ensler offers fictional monologues and stories inspired by girls around the globe. Fierce, tender, and smart, "I Am an Emotional Creature" is a celebration of the authentic voice inside every girl and an inspiring call to action for girls everywhere to speak up, follow their dreams, and become the women they were always meant to be. This paperback edition features new material about starting a discussion group based on the book.

Why has all this focus on security made me feel so much more insecure? Nothing is secure. And this is the good news. But only if you are not seeking security as the point of your life. -Eve EnslerWhen her stage play The Vagina Monologues became a runaway hit and an international sensation, Eve Ensler emerged as a powerful voice and champion for women everywhere. Now the brilliant playwright gives us her first major work written exclusively for the printed page. Insecure at Last is a timely and urgent look at our security-obsessed world, the drastic measures taken to keep us safe, and how we can truly experience freedom by letting go of the deceptive notion of vigilant protection. Ensler draws on personal experiences and candid interviews with burka-clad women in Afghanistan; female prisoners in upstate New York; survivors at the Superdome after Katrina; and anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan-sharing unforgettable snapshots that chronicle a post-9/11 existence in which hyped obsession for safety and security has undermined our humanity. The us-versus-them mentality, Ensler explains, has closed our minds and hardened our compassionate hearts. Provocative, illuminating, inspiring, and boldly envisioned, Insecure at Last challenges us to reconsider what it means to be free, to discover that our strength is not born out of that which protects us. Ensler offers us the opportunity to reevaluate our everyday lives, expose our vulnerability, and, in doing so, experience true freedom and fulfillment.From the Hardcover edition.

¿Qué tienen en común Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Melanie Griffith y Winona Ryder? Todas ellas, además de otras reconocidas actrices, han subido al escenario a interpretar Monólogos de la vagina. Esta obra, que en 2001 fue elegida en Estados Unidos para abanderar la lucha contra los malos tratos a mujeres, es el resultado de las entrevistas que Eve Ensler realizo a mas de doscientas mujeres para escribir sobre su obra teatral del mismo titulo. "Estaba preocupada por las vaginas. Me preocupaba lo que pensamos sobre la vagina, y aun mas que no pensaramos sobre ellas. Asi que hable con mas de doscientas mujeres, hable con mujeres mayores, jovenes, casadas, solteras, lesbianas, profesoras universitarias, actrices, ejecutivas, prostitutas, norteamericanas, afroamericanas, asiaticas, hispanas, blancas y judias. Al principio se sentian cohibidas. Pero una vez que se animaban, ya no habia forma de pararlas".Eve Ensler es autora teatral y guionista; esta obra tuvo un gran exito en Off-Broadway y se ha representado en todo Estados Unidos, asi como en Jerusalen, Zagreb, Londres, Madrid y Barcelona. En todas partes donde se ha representado ha cosechado un enorme exito de publico.

Gloria Steinem's introduction supplements this special edition of this controversial and beloved play, which has been performed by Glenn Close, Susan Sontag and many others. A feminist meditation, this Obie Award-winning piece considers the attitudes of women of various ages toward their vaginas.

The author of "The Vagina Monologues" initiates a howl of protest about violence against women and girls in this impressive collection of original writings by such luminaries as Alice Walker, Michael Cunningham, Kathy Najimy, Jane Fonda, and Maya Angelou.

From the Obie Award-winning playwright of "The Vagina Monologues" comes this unflinching, unapologetic celebration of the female body--delivered in her trademark monologue form--which is a ringing condemnation of a culture that refuses to accept that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

From the Obie Award-winning playwright of "The Vagina Monologues" comes this unflinching, unapologetic celebration of the female body--delivered in her trademark monologue form--which is a ringing condemnation of a culture that refuses to accept that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

«Estaba preocupada por las vaginas. Me preocupaba lo que pensamos sobre las vaginas, y me preocupaba aún más que no pensáramos en ellas... Así que decidí hablar con las mujeres sobre sus vaginas, hac

Qui écoute ce texte ne regarde plus le corps dune femme de la même manière. Qui écoute ce texte ne pense plus au sexe de la même manière.Depuis sa parution aux États-Unis en 1998, Les Monologues du v

I have been exiled from my body. I was ejected at a very young age and I got lost.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 many years disassociated from her own - a disconnection brought on by her fathers sexual abuse and her mothers remoteness.While working in the Congo, Ensler 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 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.

In her first new work since The Vagina Monologues, her Obie Award-winning smash hit, Eve Ensler tells the story of two American women, a Park Avenue psychiatrist and a human rights worker, who go to Bosnia to help women confront their memories of war and emerge deeply changed themselves. Necessary Targets is a groundbreaking play about women and warabout the violence of dark memories and the enduring resilience of the human spirit.Melissa, an ambitious young writer, and J.S., a successful but unsatisfied middle-aged psychiatrist, have nothing in common beyond the methods they have been taught to distance themselves from other people. As J.S. begins to feel compassion for the women whose tragedies she has been sent to expose, she turns on Melissa, who finds safety in control. In an unexpected moment of revelation, J.S. and the women she is supposedly treating find a common ground, a place to be taught and a place to learn.Necessary Targets has been staged in New York by Meryl Streep, Anjelica Huston, and Calista Flockhart, and performed in Sarajevo with Glenn Close and Marisa Tomei.

A landmark in womens empowermentas relevant as ever in the age of #MeToothat honors female sexuality in all its complexity Its been more than twenty years since Eve Enslers international sensation The Vagina Monologues gave birth to V-Day, the radical, global grassroots movement to end violence against women and girls. This special edition features six never-before-published monologues, a new foreword by National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson, a new introduction by the author, and a new afterword by One Billion Rising director Monique Wilson on the stage phenomenons global impact. Witty and irreverent, compassionate and wise, this award-winning masterpiece gives voice to real womens deepest fantasies, fears, anger, and pleasure, and calls for a world where all women are safe, equal, free, and alive in their bodies.Praise for The Vagina Monologues Probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade.The New York TimesThis play changed the world. Seeing it changed my soul. Performing in it changed my life. I am forever indebted to Eve Ensler and the transformative legacy of this play.Kerry Washington Spellbinding, funny, and almost unbearably moving . . . both a work of art and an incisive piece of cultural history, a poem and a polemic, a performance and a balm and a benediction.Variety Often wrenching, frequently riotous. . . . Ensler is an impassioned wit.Los Angeles Times Extraordinary . . . a compelling rhapsody of the female essence.Chicago Tribune

Eve Ensler is back and has set her sight slightly higher with an intimate contemplation of her second greatest obsession: her tortured relationship with her post-forties stomach.Ensler toured the world asking women about their bodies and gives us their wild and wonderful and deeply moving stories. She frames these stories with her own personal journey, serving up riotous excerpts from her lifelong dialogue with her stomach - a sassy and conniving antagonist in its own right. We follow her through the serial seduction of low-carb diets, ab rollers and personal trainers, to the wise words of a woman who taught her how to love her body, and see that it was good...

Why has all this focus on security made me feel so much more insecure? Nothing is secure. And this is the good news. But only if you are not seeking security as the point of your life.Eve EnslerWhen her stage play The Vagina Monologues became a runaway hit and an international sensation, Eve Ensler emerged as a powerful voice and champion for women everywhere. Now the brilliant playwright gives us her first major work written exclusively for the printed page. Insecure at Last is a timely and urgent look at our security-obsessed world, the drastic measures taken to keep us safe, and how we can truly experience freedom by letting go of the deceptive notion of vigilant protection.Ensler draws on personal experiences and candid interviews with burka-clad women in Afghanistan; female prisoners in upstate New York; survivors at the Superdome after Katrina; and anti-war activist Cindy Sheehansharing unforgettable snapshots that chronicle a post-9/11 existence in which hyped obsession for safety and security has undermined our humanity. The us-versus-them mentality, Ensler explains, has closed our minds and hardened our compassionate hearts. Provocative, illuminating, inspiring, and boldly envisioned, Insecure at Last challenges us to reconsider what it means to be free, to discover that our strength is not born out of that which protects us. Ensler offers us the opportunity to reevaluate our everyday lives, expose our vulnerability, and, in doing so, experience true freedom and fulfillment.

2018 marks the twentieth anniversary of V-Day, the radical grassroots movement to end violence against women and girls, inspired by Eve Enslers international sensation The Vagina Monologues. This special edition features six never-before-published monologues, a new foreword by National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson, a new introduction by the author, and a new afterword by One Billion Rising director Monique Wilson on the stage phenomenons global impact.A landmark work in womens empowerment, as relevant as ever after a year marked by unprecedented social and political protest in the face of unapologetic racism and misogyny, The Vagina Monologues honours womens sexuality in all its complexity, mystery and power. Witty and irreverent, compassionate and wise, this award-winning masterpiece gives voice to real womens deepest fantasies, fears, anger and pleasure, and calls for a world where all women are safe, equal, free and alive in their bodies.This play changed the world. Seeing it changed my soul. Performing in it changed my lifeKerry Washington

In this daring book, internationally acclaimed author and playwright Eve Ensler offers fictional monologues and stories inspired by girls around the globe. Fierce, tender, and smart, I Am an Emotional Creature is a celebration of the authentic voice inside every girl and an inspiring call to action for girls everywhere to speak up, follow their dreams, and become the women they were always meant to be.This edition features new material about starting a discussion group based on the book.

Selections from the Until the Violence Stops FestivalFeaturing writings by Abiola Abrams Edward Albee Tariq Ali Maya Angelou Periel Aschenbrand Patricia Bosworth Nicole Burdette Kate Clinton Kimberle Crenshaw Michael Cunningham Edwidge Danticat Ariel Dorfman Mollie Doyle Slavenka Drakulic Michael Eric Dyson Dave Eggers Kathy Engel Eve Ensler Jane Fonda Carol Gilligan Jyllian Gunther Suheir Hammad Christine House Marie Howe Carol Michele Kaplan Moises Kaufman Michael Klein Nicholas Kristof James Lecesne Elizabeth Lesser Mark Matousek Deena Metzger Susan Miller Winter Miller Susan Minot Robin Morgan Kathy Najimy Lynn Nottage Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Sharon Olds Hanan al-Shaykh Anna Deavere Smith Diana Son Monica Szlekovics Robert Thurman Betty Gale Tyson Alice Walker Jody Williams Erin Cressida Wilson Howard ZinnThis groundbreaking collection, edited by author and playwright Eve Ensler, features pieces from Until the Violence Stops, the international tour that brings the issue of violence against women and girls to the forefront of our consciousness. These diverse voices rise up in a collective roar to break open, expose, and examine the insidiousness of brutality, neglect, a punch, or a put-down. Here is Edward Albee on S&M; Maya Angelou on womens work; Michael Cunningham on self-mutilation; Dave Eggers on a Sudanese abduction; Carol Gilligan on a daughter witnessing her mother being hit; Susan Miller on raising a son as a single mother; and Sharon Olds on a bra.These writings are inspired, funny, angry, heartfelt, tragic, and beautiful. But above all, together they create a true and profound portrait of this issues effect on every one of us. With information on how to organize an Until the Violence Stops event in your community, A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer is a call to the world to demand an end to violence against women.In the current era, it takes some brain racking to think of anyone else doing anything quite like Ensler. Shes a countercultural consciousness-raiser, an empowering figure, a truth-teller.Chicago Tribune