Insecure at last
Subtitle: losing it in our security-obsessed world
By: Eve Ensler
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Villard
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781400063345
Subjects: Women; Case studies; Feminism; History
Description: Interweaves memoir and observation to explain how fears on both a personal and global scale result in a less secure existence.
Table of contents: title: I. DRAWN TO WHAT I FEARED THE MOST: The first melting; title: When I learned that bullets are frozen tears; title: Almost flogged; title: Under the burqa; title: They blew her up 'cause they could not cut her down; title: Dust; title: Going the distance; title: II. UNRAVELING: Vaginas; title: more terrifying than scud missiles; title: The door that blew open; title: A world of Brendas; title: The memory of her face: Ciudad Juarez; title: Waiting for Mr. Alligator; title: The scariest thing about prison was not the spiked barbed wire; title: Betty Gale Tyson is free; title: III. LEAVING MY FATHER'S HOUSE: Reckoning; title: Free falling; title: The wave that came and took everything away; title: IV. FINALLY EXPOSED: INSECURE AT LAST: Smack in the center of America; title: Down to the zero of myself; title: Diving; title: Christmas Eve, 2005; title: In the name of security, they somehow forgot to protect the people.