In the body of the world
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Eve Ensler
Publisher: Random House Canada
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780345813237
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: American Authors; Biography; Cancer; Patients; Cancer patients' writings, American; Women human rights workers; Women; Social conditions; Écrivains américains; Biographies; Cancéreux; Écrits de cancéreux américains; Femmes défenseurs des droits de l'homme; Femmes; Conditions sociales
Description: 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.
Notes: Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: Scans; title: Divided; title: The beginning of the end, or In your liver; title: Dr. Deb, or Congocancer; title: Somnolence; title: Cancer town; title: Dr. Handsome; title: What we don't know going into surgery; title: This is where you will cross the Uji River; title: Questions; title: Uterus = hysteria; title: Falling, or Congo stigmata; title: Lu; title: Here's what's gone; title: The stoma; title: How'd I get it?; title: Circumambulating; title: Ice chips; title: Patient; title: The rupture/the Gulf spill; title: Becoming someone else; title: Beware of getting the best; title: Stages/5.2b; title: Infusion suite; title: Arts and crafts; title: The room with a tree; title: A buzz cut; title: Getting port; title: The chemo isn't for you; title: Tara, Kali, and Sue; title: Crowd chemo; title: The obstruction, or How tree saved me; title: I was that girl who was supposed to be dead, or How pot saved me later; title: Riding the lion; title: Chemo day five; title: On the couch next to me; title: I love your hair, or The last time i saw my mother; title: It was a beach, I think; title: Shit; title: Rada; title: Death and Tami Taylor; title: A burning meditation on love; title: My mother dies; title: De-ported; title: Live by the vagina, die by the vagina; title: Farting for Cindy; title: It wasn't a foreboding; title: Congo incontinent; title: Leaking; title: She will live; title: Sue; title: Joy; title: Mother; title: Second wind; title: In the body of the world.