num_pages: 240
description: From the bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues and one of Newsweeks 150 Women Who Changed the World a visionary memoir of separation and connectionto the body the self and the worldPlaywright author and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female bodyhow to talk about it how to protect and value it. Yet she spent much of her life disassociated from her own bodya disconnection brought on by her fathers sexual abuse and her mothers 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 bodypricked 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 fullyand gratefullyjoined 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.http://us.macmillan.com/inthebodyofth...
language: English
title: In the Body of the World
publisher: Metropolitan Books