In the Body of the World A Memoir

Name: In the Body of the World A Memoir
Price: 3.3 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780805095180

ISBN-10: 0805095187

ISBN-13: 9780805095180

Edition: 2013

Authors: Eve Ensler

List price: $25.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

5 new & used from $3.30

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

From the bestselling author ofThe Vagina Monologuesand one ofNewsweek'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 thinking about the female body—how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet as she recounts in this inspiring and lyrical 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, and by her later exploits with drugs, alcohol, and promiscuous sex. Her body was a machine to be mastered; she lived in her head,…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 4/30/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Divided


The Beginning of the End, or In Your Liver


Dr. Deb, or Congocancer


Somnolence


Cancer Town


Dr. Handsome


What We Don't Know Going into Surgery


This Is Where You Will Cross the Uji River


Two Questions


Uterus = Hysteria


Falling, or Congo Stigmata


Lu


Here's What's Gone


The Stoma


How'd I Get It?


Circumambulating


Ice Chips


Patient


The Rupture/The Gulf Spill


Becoming Someone Else


Beware of Getting the Best


Stages/5.2B


Infusion Suite


Arts and Crafts


The Room with a Tree


A Buzz Cut


Getting Port


The Chemo Isn't for You


Tara, Kali, and Sue


Crowd Chemo


The Obstruction, or How Tree Saved Me


I Was That Girl Who Was Supposed to Be Dead, or How Pot Saved Me Later


Riding the Lion


Chemo Day Five


On the Couch Next to Me


I Love Your Hair, or The Last Time I Saw My Mother


It Was a Beach, I Think


Shit


Rada


Death and Tami Taylor


A Burning Meditation on Love


My Mother Dies


De-Ported


Live by the Vagina, Die by the Vagina


Farting for Cindy


It Wasn't a Foreboding


Congo Incontinent


Leaking


She Will Live


Sue


Joy


Mother


Second Wind