In the body of the world
By: Eve Ensler
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780805095180
Subjects: Cancer patients' writings, American; Cancer; American Authors; Patients; Social conditions; Women human rights workers; Biography; Women
Description: The author of The Vagina Monologues describes being diagnosed and treated for uterine cancer and how her illness forced her to reconnect with her own body and gave her a better understanding of the resilience of humans.
Table of contents: 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: Two 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.