num_pages: 176
description: In this daring provocative and insightful book bestselling author and internationally acclaimed playwright Eve Ensler writes fictional monologues and stories inspired by girls around the globe. Moving through a world of topics and emotions these voices are fierce alive tender complicated imaginative and smart. Girls today often find themselves in a struggle between remaining strong and true to themselves and conforming to societys expectations in an attempt to please. They are taught not to be too intense too passionate too smart too caring too open. They are encouraged to shut down their instincts their outrage their desires and their dreams to be polite to obey the rules. 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.Among the girls Ensler creates are an American who struggles with peer pressure in a suburban high school; an anorexic blogging as she eats less and less; a Masai girl from Kenya unwilling to endure female genital mutilation; a Bulgarian sex slave no more than fifteen a Chinese factory worker making Barbies; an Iranian student who is tricked into a nose job; a pregnant girl trying to decide if she should keep her baby.Through rants poetry questions and facts we come to understand the universality of girls their resiliency their wildness their pain their fears their secrets and their triumphs. I Am an Emotional Creature is a call a reckoning an education an act of empowerment for girls and an illumination for parents and for us all.
language: English
title: I Am an Emotional Creature
publisher: Villard